Dune Plants - Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Find and explore some of these common plants found in the dunes of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the San Francisco region.

American dune grass

Leymus mollis (syn. Elymus mollis) is a species of grass known by the common names American dune grass, American dune wild-rye, sea lyme-grass, strand-wheat, and strand grass. Its Japanese name is hamaninniku. It is native to Asia, where it occurs in Japan, China, Korea, and Russia, and northern parts of North America, ...more ↓

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