Family: Poaceae
false-timothy, pickle grass, swamp pickle grass
[Heleochloa schoenoides (L.) Host ex Roem.]
Etymology: Crypsis: Cryp, "hidden, secret, covered"
Plants: annual grass
Conservation Status: Introduced - adventive
Plants: annual grass
Conservation Status: Introduced - adventive
Pavement cracks, railroad corridors, and compacted (often saline) ground. This is a Mediterranean species collected a few times by Lloyd H. Shinners from 1936-1942. It was not collected again until 1972 and then in 2017. It still persists in Jefferson, Milwaukee, and Waukesha Cos. and perhaps elsewhere. If included in Sporobolus, it would be called S. schoenoides (L.) P.M. Peterson.
Flora of North America: Flora of North America Floristic Rating: Wetland Indicator = FACU USDA Plants Database: Federal Distribution and detailed information including photos Grasses of Iowa: Detailed photographs, descriptions, maps