Scientists are also developing breeds of grass that require less water, such as paspalum, which can tolerate saltwater. From Wordnik.com. [Play It as It Dries] Reference
The course has been replanted with saline-tolerant varieties of paspalum grass that thrive on brackish water. From Wordnik.com. [Loreto Bay: The greenest place in Baja, and quite possibly in all of Mexico!] Reference
Little bluestem – brownseed paspalum (S. scoparium-paspalum plicatulum) prairie is associated with Fayette Prairie alfisols. From Wordnik.com. [Texas blackland prairies] Reference
Other native vegetation is mainly grassland composed of seacoast bluestem, sea-oats, common reed, gulfdune paspalum, and soilbind morning-glory. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
Big bluestem was a likely dominant on the Blackland Prairie Mollisols, and little bluestem-brownseed paspalum prairie often occurred on the Fayette Prairie Alfisols. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
The hollow in which we lived, or perhaps the pollen from the paspalum which was always threatening to engulf us, or the suspicion that my life had taken a wrong turning, encouraged the worst attacks of asthma. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick White - Autobiography] Reference
Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
The fairways have been seeded with heartier paspalum grass to replace the Bermuda grass that was there before. From Wordnik.com. [SI.com] Reference
These savannahs, partly inundated during three months, are composed of paspalum, eriochloa, and several species of cyperaceae. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Significant, he adds, is the use of saltwater-tolerant paspalum seashore grass on the fairways, as well as vastly improved drainage all over the course. From Wordnik.com. Reference
By Joshua Siskin, Garden ColumnistUpdated: 09/11/2009 09: 42: 38 PM PDT Seashore paspalum as seen at the Web site If you live long enough, your enemies may eventually. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to This Diwali, books and plants replace sweets] Reference
That's what's happened in the marshes of the Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area near Freeport, where high sa linities have killed much of the seashore paspalum (jointgrass) and spartina patens (wiregrass/marshhay) that carpet the marsh, as well as wigeongrass and other aquatic vegetation that grow in the normally brackish water. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Seashore paspalum may become the lawn of choice. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to This Diwali, books and plants replace sweets] Reference
The following dairy fodder crops have yielded prolifically: -- Oats, rye, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, vetches, field peas, cow peas, lucerne, mustard, Jersey kale, field cabbage, turnips, swedes, mangel wurzel, silver beet, buckwheat, potatoes, linseed, pig melon, paspalum, Italian canary grass. From Wordnik.com. [Australia, The Dairy Country] Reference
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