Description
Puccinellia distans (scientific name: Puccinellia distans (L.) Parl.) is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the family Gramineae. The stalks are upright, rooted at knots, up to 60 cm high, and often flattened in diameter. The leaf sheath is longer than the internodes, smooth and hairless, and the leaves are linear, slightly rough or smooth underneath. The panicles are open and the spikelets are short; the spikelets contain florets, thin glumes, blunt apex, with serration, lemma with inconspicuous veins, truncated or obtuse round apex, and the lemma is as long as or slightly longer than the lemma, Ridges are slightly rough; caryopsis fusiform, flowering and fruiting from May to July.
Puccinellia is distributed in China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, Russia, the Mediterranean region, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Europe, It is distributed in Asia, Northwest Africa and North America. It grows on mildly saline-alkaline moist grassland, field edges, water streams, river valleys, and low meadow salinized sandy land at an altitude of 200-3000 meters.
Puccinellia is a favorite pasture for domestic animals.
