64 \ \TI\T. VEGETATION AS AN INDICATOR 



Alkali-indicating plants not commonly forming the major 

 portion of alkali-land vegetation 



Inhabiting Ihioist saline lauds: 

 Arrow grass (Triglochin marilima and T. paluslris) L. (Across continent) 

 Alkaii meadow grass (Puccinellia airoides. Nutt.) (Entire west. N. Mex.- 



Mnnt.) 

 Marsh grass {Spartina era, His. Trin.) (Oregon to Texas) 

 Trailing buttercup (Halerpestes cymbalaria. Pursh.) (Rock)- Alts., n. 



seacoast) 

 Shooting star or American cowslip (Dodecalheon salinum. Nels.) (Western 



Wyoming, Utah, Idaho) 

 Glaux {Glaux marilima. L.) (Subsaline soil west of Mississippi) 

 Aster (Aster angustus. T. and G.) (Colorado and Utah to Minnesota) 

 Aster {Aster pauciflorus. Nutt.) (New Mexico, Arizona, Utah) 

 Crepis (Cre pis glauca. T. andG.) (West of Missouri to Nevada) 

 Plowman's wort (Pluchca camphorala) (Coast of Florida to Texas) 

 Mousetail {Myosurus apclahis. Gay) (Western North America) 

 Valeria {Valeriana furfurescens. Nels.) (Colorado and Wyoming) 

 Pyrroeoma uniflora. Greene. (Montana to Colorado and Utah) 

 Rush (Scirpits nevadensis. Wats.) (Wyoming, California) 

 Tuber bubrush (Scirpus paludosns) 



Inhabiting soil not moist at the surface: 

 Bud-brush (Artemisia spinescens. Eat.) (Colorado to Montana and west) 

 Aster (Aster zylorhiza. Nutt.) (Southcentral Wyoming. Naked, clayey, 



saline) 

 Pyrroeoma lanceolata. Greene (Saskatchewan. Northern Colorado and 



west to Nevada) 

 Flaveria dngustifolia. Pers. (Eastern Colorado and New Mexico to 



western Texas) 

 Pepper grass (Lcpidium monlanum. Nutt.) (Montana to New Mexico 



and westward) 

 Wild barley (Hordeum nodosum. ' L.) (Arizona to Alaska) 

 Wild rye (Elymus salinus. Jones) (Wyoming and Utah. Saline situations) 

 Goosefoot or pigweed (Cheno podium rubrum. L.) (Across continent north- 

 ward) 

 Goosefoot or pigweed (Chenopodium soccosum. Nels.) (Southern Wyoming) 

 Monolepsis spp. (Colorado and westward. Saline soils) 



Botanically, probably half of the alkali-loving plants 

 belong to the Cheno podiaceae, or goosefoot family, which 



