Welcome to the official website of the City of Martinsburg, West Virginia! The City of Martinsburg, recognized as the fastest growing City in the State is known as the Gateway to the Shenandoah Valley.. Located in the heart of the Eastern Panhandle, the City serves as the county seat to Berkeley County.
Distichlis spicata is a species of grass known by several common names, including seashore saltgrass, inland saltgrass, and desert saltgrass.This grass is native to the Americas, where it is widespread. It can be found on other continents as well, where it is naturalized.It is extremely salt tolerant.he total dry matter yields were 9081 kg/ha with a total protein production of 1300 kg/ha. Saltgrass is grazed by both cattle and horses and it has a forage value of fair to good because it remains green when most other grasses are dry during the drought periods and it is resistant to grazing and trampling.
Quackgrass is a nasty grass weed that, if left untreated, can take over your lawn or garden quickly. Quackgrass is its most common name, but it may also be called couch, quitch, devils, wheat, scotch, twitch, witch, dog or durfa grass. Quackgrass has thin, flat, bright ashy green leaf blades. It is a perennial grass weed with auricles that clasp the stem, rhizomes, and a long, narrow spiked seed head. This seed head grows from 3 to 8 inches long and appears in July. Quackgrass grows from underground rhizomes (or stems) that lie dormant in the winter and pop back up in the spring. If left uncut, these stems can grow from 1 to 4 feet high. Quackgrass is hard to contain, because you can only use herbicides on it that will not kill your lawn along with it.