Some Common Plants of Upper Newport Bay

Saltgrass  (Distichlis spicata)

Flowers: On a few short branches with relatively few large, several to many flowered spikelets. Spikelets are purple to straw colored, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long.

Flower: -  Back Bay Drive near Middle Island - 17-Apr-07

Date: 9/9/2007