Details for: PI 645598, Paspalum vaginatum Sw., 'Brazoria'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Paspalum vaginatum Sw.
Cultivar:
'Brazoria'
Origin:
Collected – Louisiana, United States
Received by NPGS:
10 Feb 2005
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Paspalum vaginatum Sw.
Cultivar:
'Brazoria'
Origin:
Collected – Louisiana, United States
Received by NPGS:
10 Feb 2005
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
1990.
Texas, United States
Locality: Five miles north of the intersection of the San Bernard River and the Intracoastal Waterway located between Hwy. 2918 and the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge in Brazoria County, Texas.
Environment description: Brackish marsh. Soil is mapped Surfside Clay, and described as being a nearly level saline soils with an average slope of 0.2%. The surface layer is mildly alkaline, saline, dark gray clay to about 14 inches.
Comment: Native vegetation would be characterized as a salty prairie, composed of about 95% grass species and 5% forbs. The plant community is typically 80% Spartina spartinae (gulf cordgrass).
Developed

Louisiana, United States

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Accession Names and Identifiers
'Brazoria'
Type: Cultivar name

9067665
Type: Developer identifier

Narrative
Brazoria seashore paspalum is an effective pioneering species that can be established on shorelines, dunes, canal banks, mudflats, dredge materials, and other bare and ephemeral soil deposits. It spreads rapidly and can form dense stands within two growing seasons from planting. It can be successfully established on fresh to brackish soils in areas up to approximately 10 ppt of salts. Adapted to low-elevations at or slightly above normal water levels. Preferred sites are bare, saturated-to-moist soils, with little-or-no other vegetative competition. Brazoria will grow out into water. Culms and stolons will float or persist slightly submerged. However, Brazoria is not considered an emergent aquatic and will not persist under prolonged flooded conditions. It is a perennial, semi-aquatic, rapid-growing decumbent grass.
Paspalum vaginatum Sw.
Genus:
Paspalum
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Panicoideae
Tribe:
Paspaleae
Subtribe:
Paspalinae
Nomen number:

26933
Place of publication:

Prodr. 21. 1788
Verified:
05/30/1995 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Paspalum gayanum É. Desv.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbiscuit grass  1Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Englishsaltwater couch  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishseashore paspalum  1Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: Revised version of AH 170
Englishsilt grass  1Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. Note: re. common names
Portuguese (Brazil)capim-paturá  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Portuguese (Brazil)grama-rasteira  2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
Spanishgrama de costa  2Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1-163.
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Description:
Selected from twenty-seven ecotypes collected from Louisiana, Texas, Florida, and Hawaii in 1990. Vegetative materials were maintained and tested between 1991 and 1995 both under control experimental design and as outfield plots.