Burke: Triglochin maritima

	Triglochin maritima
	seaside arrow-grass
Habit	Scapose, herbaceous perennials from woody rhizomes, the scapes 3-12 dm. tall.
Leaves	Leaves from the rhizome, narrowly linear, the blades flattened, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, blunt; ligules entire or shallowly lobed, 1.5-4 mm. long.
Flowers	Flowers perfect, in compact racemes which are over half the length of the plant; pedicles 2-3 mm. long, ascending; perianth segments 6, greenish or purplish, about 2 mm. long; stamens 6, the anthers sessile in the axils of the perianth segments.
Fruits	Follicles oblong, 5 mm. long, the 6 carpels rounded at the base and with a recurved beak, completely deciduous.

	Triglochin maritima
Flowering time	May-August
Habitat	Marshy to moist, gravelly areas, mostly were saline or alkaline.
Distribution	Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, further eastward across the northern U.S. and southern Canada to the Atlantic Coast. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Native
Conservation status	Not of concern
Sibling taxa	T. concinna, T. palustris, T. scilloides, T. striata
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, OR, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Triglochin maritima

seaside arrow-grass

Habit

Scapose, herbaceous perennials from woody rhizomes, the scapes 3-12 dm. tall.

Leaves

Leaves from the rhizome, narrowly linear, the blades flattened, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, blunt;

ligules entire or shallowly lobed, 1.5-4 mm. long.

Flowers

Flowers perfect, in compact racemes which are over half the length of the plant; pedicles 2-3 mm. long, ascending;

perianth segments 6, greenish or purplish, about 2 mm. long;

stamens 6, the anthers sessile in the axils of the perianth segments.

Fruits

Follicles oblong, 5 mm. long, the 6 carpels rounded at the base and with a recurved beak, completely deciduous.

Triglochin maritima

Flowering time

May-August

Habitat

Marshy to moist, gravelly areas, mostly were saline or alkaline.

Distribution

Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, further eastward across the northern U.S. and southern Canada to the Atlantic Coast.

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Origin

Native

Conservation status

Not of concern

Sibling taxa

T. concinna, T. palustris, T. scilloides, T. striata

Web links