The Beach Puffgrass split from its ancestor Puffgrass. It has adapted to beach environments by tolerating more salinity and sandy soil. Excess salt will build up a few leaves and then the leaves will fall off. Thus expelling the excess salt. Their long leaves absob more sunlight and are flexible enough to bend in the strong ocean breezes and storms. Like their ancestor they spread their puffy spore via the wind. These float in the wind and matching spores fuse together, forming airborne zygotes. Once fertilize and on the surface it will start to germinate. To maximize their chances of fertilization they will coordinate their release of spores in the spring.
Living Relatives (click to show/hide)
These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
