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|accepted_name=Spartina gracilis
|accepted_authority=Trin.
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|common_names=Alkali cordgrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Spartina;Spartina gracilis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Spartina]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Spartina gracilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 247
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>strongly rhizomatous; rhizomes elongate, 1.5-5 mm thick, whitish, scales not inflated, closely imbricate. <b>Culms</b> 40-100 cm tall, 2-3.5 mm thick, usually solitary, erect, terete, indurate, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth or striate, mostly or completely glabrous, throats occasionally ciliate; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades 6-30 cm long, 2.5-8 mm wide, flat, becoming involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabrous, margins scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 8-25 cm, not smooth in outline, with 3-12 branches; branches 1.5-8 cm, alternate, differing only slightly in length and spacing within a panicle, usually appressed, rarely spreading, with 10-30 spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> 6-11 mm, ovate to lanceolate. <b>Glumes</b> with glabrous or sparingly hispidulous margins, apices acute or mucronate; lower glumes 3-7 mm, sides narrow, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, keels glabrous or strigose; upper glumes 6-10 mm, usually equaling the florets, keels strigose, hairs 0.2-0.5 mm, lateral veins 2, inconspicuous, both on the same side of the keel; lemmas glabrous or sparsely hirsute, keels hirsute, at least distally, hairs 0.3-1 mm, margins sparsely hairy, apices obtuse to rounded, sometimes obscurely lobed; paleas sparsely hispid distally, obtuse to slightly rounded; anthers 2.5-5 mm, well-filled, dehiscent at maturity. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Wash.;Utah;Calif.;Minn.;Oreg.;Mont.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Wyo.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Ariz.;Idaho;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Spartina gracilis</i> is found on the margins of alkaline lakes and along stream margins and river bottoms. Its range extends from the southern portion of the Northwest Territories, Canada, to central Mexico.</p>
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name=Spartina gracilis
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|authority=Trin.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Wash.;Utah;Calif.;Minn.;Oreg.;Mont.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.W.T.;Sask.;Wyo.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Ariz.;Idaho;Nev.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Spartina
|species=Spartina gracilis
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