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Spartina - ✔✔Cordgrass
Spartina pectinata - ✔✔Freshwater Cordgrass
Taller grass, 1-2m (largest of the genus in NS)
Leaves thick and leathery with long flat or involute blades.
Raceform inflorescence with 2+ spikes.
Spikelets laterally compressed, falling individually, without the rachis. Spikelets densely packed on
strongly ascending or erect branches of the inflorescence. The imbricate spikelets along the secund
branches are distinctive. Each spikelet contains one floret. A pair of keeled unequal glumes subtend them.
The second glume is awned and 3-10mm long. Awnless lemmas are also keeled and marked with 1-3 ribs.
Sterile florets absent
Rachis smooth, not white.
Leaf margins, apices and glumes scabrous.
Perennials.
Rhizomatous.
Upper saltmarshes, marshes, lakeshores in southwestern NS; roadsides in Annapolis Valley. Scattered
inland collections as along the rocky lakeshores in southwestern Nova Scotia. Characteristic of southern
Nova Scotia lakeshores, including associated open w - ✔✔Spartina pectinata
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Spartina alterniflora - ✔✔Saltwater Cordgrass
Culms 0.5-1m tall
Leaves thick and leathery with long flat or involute blades.
Raceform inflorescence with branches tightly appressed and 2+ spikes.
Spikelets laterally compressed, falling individually, without the rachis. Spikelets densely packed on
strongly ascending or erect branches of the inflorescence. Spikelets are loosely arranged, 10-12mm long.
Each spikelet contains one floret. A pair of keeled, unequal, and awnless glumes subtend them. Awnless
lemmas are also keeled and marked with 1-3 ribs.Sterile florets absent.
Leaves and glumes smooth.
Rachis smooth, not white.
Perennials.
Rhizomatous.
Halophytic, intertidal flats and saltmarshes, beaches. Often dominant. Coastal. Obligate Wetland; occurs
almost always (estimated probability 99%) under natural conditions in wetlands. Occurs almost
exclusively in open. Occurring in strongly saline conditions. Saltmarsh. - ✔✔Spartina alterniflora
Spartina patens - ✔✔Salt-meadow Cordgrass
Low-growing grass, usually lax, forming dense matted patches, to 60cm. Small neat appearance.
Leaves thick and leathery with long, flat, narrow, and revolute blades.
Raceform inflorescence 6-7cm long and is sparingly branched, each branch 3-5cm long., with 2+ spikes.
Spikelets laterally compressed, imbricate, falling individually, without the rachis. Spikelets densely
packed on strongly ascending or erect branches of the inflorescence. Each spikelet contains one floret. A
Author: Katelyn Whitman. ©2025, All Rights Reserved.
Ducks Unlimited Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Passs
Spartina - ✔✔Cordgrass
Spartina pectinata - ✔✔Freshwater Cordgrass
Taller grass, 1-2m (largest of the genus in NS)
Leaves thick and leathery with long flat or involute blades.
Raceform inflorescence with 2+ spikes.
Spikelets laterally compressed, falling individually, without the rachis. Spikelets densely packed on
strongly ascending or erect branches of the inflorescence. The imbricate spikelets along the secund
branches are distinctive. Each spikelet contains one floret. A pair of keeled unequal glumes subtend them.
The second glume is awned and 3-10mm long. Awnless lemmas are also keeled and marked with 1-3 ribs.
Sterile florets absent
Rachis smooth, not white.
Leaf margins, apices and glumes scabrous.
Perennials.
Rhizomatous.
Upper saltmarshes, marshes, lakeshores in southwestern NS; roadsides in Annapolis Valley. Scattered
inland collections as along the rocky lakeshores in southwestern Nova Scotia. Characteristic of southern
Nova Scotia lakeshores, including associated open w - ✔✔Spartina pectinata
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Spartina alterniflora - ✔✔Saltwater Cordgrass
Culms 0.5-1m tall
Leaves thick and leathery with long flat or involute blades.
Raceform inflorescence with branches tightly appressed and 2+ spikes.
Spikelets laterally compressed, falling individually, without the rachis. Spikelets densely packed on
strongly ascending or erect branches of the inflorescence. Spikelets are loosely arranged, 10-12mm long.
Each spikelet contains one floret. A pair of keeled, unequal, and awnless glumes subtend them. Awnless
lemmas are also keeled and marked with 1-3 ribs.Sterile florets absent.
Leaves and glumes smooth.
Rachis smooth, not white.
Perennials.
Rhizomatous.
Halophytic, intertidal flats and saltmarshes, beaches. Often dominant. Coastal. Obligate Wetland; occurs
almost always (estimated probability 99%) under natural conditions in wetlands. Occurs almost
exclusively in open. Occurring in strongly saline conditions. Saltmarsh. - ✔✔Spartina alterniflora
Spartina patens - ✔✔Salt-meadow Cordgrass
Low-growing grass, usually lax, forming dense matted patches, to 60cm. Small neat appearance.
Leaves thick and leathery with long, flat, narrow, and revolute blades.
Raceform inflorescence 6-7cm long and is sparingly branched, each branch 3-5cm long., with 2+ spikes.
Spikelets laterally compressed, imbricate, falling individually, without the rachis. Spikelets densely
packed on strongly ascending or erect branches of the inflorescence. Each spikelet contains one floret. A
Author: Katelyn Whitman. ©2025, All Rights Reserved.
