Plants Profile for Ammophila arenaria (European beachgrass)

General Information
Symbol:	AMAR4
Group:	Monocot
Family:	Poaceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Graminoid
Native Status:	CAN I HI I L48 I PB I
Other Common Names:	San Francisco grass
Characteristics
Data Source and Documentation

About our new maps

	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

click on a thumbnail to view an image, or see all the Ammophila thumbnails at the Plants Gallery

©Robert Soreng. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. Africa, N. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 212. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Classification

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.

Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Cyperales
Family	Poaceae ⁄ Gramineae – Grass family
Genus	Ammophila Host – beachgrass
Species	Ammophila arenaria (L.) Link – European beachgrass

Subordinate Taxa

The Plants Database includes the following 1 subspecies of Ammophila arenaria . Click below on a thumbnail map or name for subspecies profiles.

Native

Introduced

Native and Introduced

Distribution of <i>Ammophila arenaria</i> (L.) Link ssp. <i>arundinacea</i> H. Lindb.

Ammophila arenaria ssp. arundinacea

Legal Status

U.S. Weed Information
Ammophila arenaria European beachgrass This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
Cal-IPC	California Invasive Plant Council. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal-IPC Publication 2006-02 (1 February 2007). California Invasive Plant Council. Berkeley, California.

Wetland Status

Interpreting Wetland Status

Top Level Regions
Hawaii	FACU

North America
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	FACU
Midwest	FACU
Northcentral & Northeast	FACU
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU