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Species Information

Kingdom: Plantae
  Phylum: Anthophyta
    Class: Monocotyledoneae
      Order: Cyperales
        Family: Poaceae
          Genus: Puccinellia
            Species: parishii

Parish's Alkali Grass - Puccinellia parishii

Parish's Alkali Grass

Image courtesy of New Mexico Rare Plants

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Species Extent (New Mexico)

General Description

Dwarf annual with 1 to many stems; leaf blades about 1 mm broad, flat or involute, short; culms mostly 5-15 cm tall; panicle narrow, few-flowered, the branches erect-appressed; spikelets 4-6 mm long; glumes shorter than the first floret, broad, strongly nerved, scarious-margined; florets 4-6 per spikelet, disarticulating above the glumes; lemmas about 2 mm long, obtuse to truncate, scarious and somewhat erose at the tip, pubescent on the mid and lateral nerves nearly to the apex, and on the intermediate nerves about half way. Flowers May to June.

Status

Global Rank: G2G3

State Rank: S1

State Status: E

Federal Status:

USFS Status:

BLM Status: BLM SENSITIVE

SWAP Status:

NMRP Strategy Status: Strategy Species

Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database

Number of Subpopulations: 18

Number of Mapped Locations: 23

Number of Observations: 56

Observation date range: 05-22-1983 to 04-20-2022

External Links

View More Information about this species at:
  NatureServe Explorer
  New Mexico Rare Plants Website
  Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)

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