Spartina anglica (Common Cordgrass) is a species which originated by hybridization between the Eastern Atlantic S. maritima and the Western Atlantic S. alterniflora. The initial hybridization was first observed in England around 1870. The new form later named S. townsendi, was sterile. By the late 1880s, the hybrid form greatly increased in range and abudance, probably due to a doubling of chromosome, which rendered it fertile. The new form rapidly replaced S. maritima, and in 1968. was formally named S. anglica. Like its parent species, it s a warm-season grass, growing in estuarine and marine tidal wetlands. [Note: The grasses of the genus Spartina has recently been moved by some taxonomists to the genus Sporobolus, with this species, becoming Sporobolus anglicus. [We will follow Bortolus and 37 authors 2019.) in using the more widely used name Spartina. . Spartina anglica is warm-season, perennial rhizotomous grass, growing 300 to 1 m tall, with green or grayish-green leaves. A plant usually bears a single flower spike 250 mm tall, with one or two rows of spikelets. It grows at salinities of 0 to 30 PSU. Common cordgrass is a rapid colonizer of mudlats and marshes, on one hand, stabilizing sediment, and reducing erosion, but on the other hand covering mudflats, and reducing feeding habitat for birds and fishes, and lving habitat for infaunal invertebrates. Spartina anglica has been deliberately planted in San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, and Burrard Inlet, British Columbia. Is is widespread in the British Isles, and from Germany to Brittany. It is introduced in the Venice Lagoon, Italy,, China, Australia, and New Zealand, where ti has often been deliberately planted for erosion control.