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This species tolerates high levels of salinity and is used for improving saline and alkaline land. It is also a good forage grass and a source of fiber.
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Description
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Tufted grass 0.7-2.5 m. Leaf blades narrow, scabrous. Panicle many-flowered, 15-50 cm long, silver silky. V - early spring (some leaves overwinter) to late autumn. Fl - late spring to mid summer. Fr - early autumn. P - by seed and division. Produces dense cluster. Good for grouping. Requires well-drained soil. Z 5.
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Description
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Perennial, forming large dense tussocks; roots thick, tough, coated with sand; old basal sheaths fibrous. Culms stiff, erect, 0.5–2.5 m tall, 3–5 mm in diam., 2–3-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf blades convolute, tough, 30–60 cm, 5–6 mm wide, abaxial surface smooth; ligule triangular, 5–10(–17) mm, acute. Panicle pyramidal, (15–)30–60 cm; branches 2–6 per node, ascending or spreading, 8–17 cm, lower part bare. Spikelets 4.5–7 mm, gray-green with purple-brown base; glumes unequal, elliptic, lower glume 4–5 mm, 1-veined, upper glume 6–7 mm, 3-veined, scabrid, apex acute or denticulate; callus obtuse, 0.3–0.6 mm; lemma 4.8–5.7 mm, scaberulous-puberulous, also evenly pilose with longer hairs, apex 2-toothed; awn 0.5–1.2 cm, caducous, straight or slightly curving and indistinctly twisted below, scabrid. Anthers 2.5–3.5 mm, bearded at apex. Fl. and fr. Jun–Sep.
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Distribution
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European Russia (southeastern regions), Central Asia, Siberia (southwestern regions) and adjacent China. In dry steppes and semideserts with saline soil.
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Distribution
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Gansu, Heilongjiang, Henan, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan [Afghanistan, N India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenstan, Uzbekistan].
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Habitat
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Dry mountain slopes, grassy places on slightly alkaline, sandy soil; 900–4500 m.
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Synonym
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Stipa splendens Trinius, Neue Entdeck. Pflanzenk. 2: 54. 1821; S. altaica Trinius; S. schlagintweitii Mez; Lasiagrostis splendens (Trinius) Kunth; Stipa kokonorica K. S. Hao.
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