Index / Search / Puccinellia distans ssp. distans
§1 Plant
Puccinellia distans (Jacq.) Parl. ssp. distans
vernacular weeping alkaligrass — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Puccinellia
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
County-level range
· 198 counties across 27 states/territories§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 198 counties across 27 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 1 I ▾
California view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 13 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 9 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PUDID ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/4270439 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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