Diplachne acuminata Nash. Habitat: Wet saline areas; eastwards along salted highways. Distribution: Native of c. and w. North America. Reported as adventive in PA and along highways in WV from halophytic habitats of w. United States (Cusick 1994)
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = F, NSProv, S13; = Leptochloa acuminata (Nash) Mohlenbr. — Il; = Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) A.Gray var. acuminata (Nash) Gleason — C, G; < Diplachne fusca (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. ssp. fascicularis (Lam.) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow — K4, POWO, Snow et al (2018); < Diplachne fusca (L.) P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. var. fascicularis (Lam.) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow — Peterson et al (2012), Snow & Peterson (2012); < Leptochloa fascicularis (Lam.) A.Gray — HC; < Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth ssp. fascicularis (Lam.) N.Snow — FNA25
Links to other floras: < Leptochloa fusca ssp. fascicularis - FNA25
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Great Plains: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Midwest: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Northcentral & Northeast: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 0
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