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Sporobolus anglicus; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-08-05

Sporobolus anglicus (C.E.Hubb.) P.M.Peterson & Saarela

English cordgrass; Common cord grass; Rice grass; Townsends grass

Poaceae

No habitat climate
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Sporobolus anglicus, photograph (c) Matthew Flood, some rights reserved (CC BY)Sporobolus anglicus, photograph (c) Matthew Flood, some rights reserved (CC BY)Sporobolus anglicus, photograph (c) Emil Jantke, some rights reserved (CC BY)Sporobolus anglicus, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedSporobolus anglicus, photograph author not stated, no rights reservedSporobolus anglicus, photograph author not stated, no rights reserved 72 photographs ›

Summary

Sporobolus anglicus (common cordgrass) is a hybrid-derived species of cordgrass that originated in southern England in about 1870 and is a neonative species in Britain. It was reclassified as Sporobolus anglicus after a taxonomic revision in 2014, but its previous name, Spartina anglica is still in common usage. It is an allotetraploid species derived from the hybrid Sporobolus × townsendii, which arose when the European native cordgrass Sporobolus maritimus (small cordgrass) hybridized with the introduced American Sporobolus alterniflorus (smooth cordgrass).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sporobolus anglicus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 22 of the 1246 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here. · introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, France, Cyprus, China Southeast, Tasmania, Victoria, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, British Columbia, Washington, California · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 779 openly licensed records of 1246 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 22 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Matthew Flood, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Emil Jantke, some rights reserved (CC BY); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Other Sporobolus 21 in the reference

Sporobolus africanus Sporobolus africanus African Dropseed Photo: CC BY, Tia McNichollSporobolus airoides Sporobolus airoides Alkali sacaton Photo: CC BY, Parker James LloydSporobolus alterniflorus Sporobolus alterniflorus Smooth Cord-grass Photo: CC BY, Shelby Lyn SandersSporobolus bakeri Sporobolus bakeri Sand Cordgrass Photo: CC BY, Pam KleinsasserSporobolus compositus Sporobolus compositus Rough dropseed Photo: CC0, John KeesSporobolus cryptandrus Sporobolus cryptandrus Sand dropseed Photo: CC0, author not statedSporobolus cynosuroides Sporobolus cynosuroides Big Cordgrass Photo: CC BY, Tom FieldSporobolus foliosus Sporobolus foliosus California Cord Grass Photo: CC BY, dorianSporobolus heterolepis Sporobolus heterolepis Prairie dropseed Photo: CC0, author not statedSporobolus indicus Sporobolus indicus Smut grass Photo: CC0, author not statedSporobolus junceus Sporobolus junceus Lizard Grass Photo: CC BY, Athena PhilipsSporobolus maritimus Sporobolus maritimus Small Cord-grass Photo: CC BY, Andreas De Beer all 22 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Spartina anglica; Spartina townsendii subsp. anglica. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
(C.E.Hubb.) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
Native to
not verified
Records
1246 georeferenced · 779 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region, only 16 where it is introduced
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 5 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 78 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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