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§1 Plant

Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl.

vernacular weeping alkaligrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
PUDI
GBIF
2704688
Rank
species
weeping alkaligrass (Puccinellia distans)
Platephotograph · Oyuntsetseg Batlai source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Puccinellia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • GL Greenland Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 216 counties across 31 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 0 Both · 216 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 216 counties across 31 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 1 B ▾
California view state ↗ 9 B ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 6 B ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 B ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 B ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 B ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 B ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 B ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Montana view state ↗ 17 B ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 B ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 9 B ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 4 B ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 B ▾
New York view state ↗ 20 B ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 B ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Utah view state ↗ 24 B ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Washington view state ↗ 13 B ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 15 B ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 8 B ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/PUDI ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2704688 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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