Sporobolus hookerianus is a species of grass known by the common name alkali cordgrass.

[1] It is native to western North America from north-western Canada through the western United States and eastern California, and into central Mexico.

It grows in moist alkaline habitat, such as evaporating streams and shorelines, alkali flats, and inland marshes.

It produces usually single, slender stems reaching a meter in maximum height.

The inflorescence is a narrow, dense, spike-like stick of branches appressed together, the unit reaching up to 25 centimeters long.