Global InformationPuccinellia howellii information
| Puccinellia howellii | |
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Conservation status
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 Critically Imperiled (NatureServe) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Puccinellia |
| Species: | P. howellii
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| Binomial name | |
| Puccinellia howellii J.I.Davis
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Puccinellia howellii is a rare species of grass known by the common name Howell's alkaligrass.[1] It is endemic to Shasta County, California, where it is known from a single population in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area near Whiskeytown. Its entire population is contained in a 1-acre (4,000 m2) complex of three saline mineral springs directly next to Highway 299.[2] The grass was first described to science in 1990[3] and no other populations were discovered despite extensive searches of the area.[4]
The hillsides surrounding the salt springs where the rare grass grows burned in the 2018 Carr Fire. However the bare, wet gravel slopes of the springs were largely unburned and the Puccinellia population persists.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Puccinellia howellii". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- ^ Cooper, D. J. and E. C. Wolf. (2007). A restoration and monitoring plan for Puccinellia howellii, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, California. Archived 2011-07-15 at the Wayback Machine Colorado State University.
- ^ Davis, J. I. (1990). Puccinellia howellii (Poaceae), a new species from California. Madroño. 37:1 55-58.
- ^ Center for Plant Conservation Archived 2010-10-29 at the Wayback Machine