| Author | (L.) Desfontaines | |
| Distribution | Outer Banks and adjacent mainland. Disjunct inland to Wake County (field south of Raleigh in 1941). First collected in NC in 1867 "near Wilmington" by W.M. Canby.
Native of southern Europe and Turkey; in N.A. common west of the Mississippi River, eastward on the Atlantic coast. | |
| Abundance | Frequent to locally common on the Outer Banks/barrier islands, uncommon on the mainland. | |
| Habitat | Maritime sands, interdune swales and marshes, wet maritime grasslands, margins of brackish marshes. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting May-July. | |
| Identification | The whitish, ovate inflorescence looks and feels like a rabbit's foot. This can be a conspicuous grass (when in flower/fruit) in coastal areas. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | FNA maps P. maritimus in NC, but website editors have seen no evidence.
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACW link |
| USACE-emp | FACW link |
