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