Taxon: Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P. Beauv. ex J. Presl & C. Presl

See also subordinate taxa:

• Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum (2 accessions)
• Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius (1 accessions)

Common names:

• bulbous oatgrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• false oat grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• false oat grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• French-rye   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• meadow oat grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• onion couch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• onion twitch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• onion-root twitch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• tall oat grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• tuber oat grass   (Source: Hortus 3 [as A. elatius var. bulbosum]) – English   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  
• yan mai cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• avoine élevée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• fromental   (Source: F Iraq ) – French   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• französisches Raygras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• Glatthafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• avena altissima   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• ō-kani-tsuri   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• aveia-de-rosário   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• aveia-grande   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• mazorilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• pärlhavre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.]
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan [s.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [n.e.]

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arrhenatherum elatius.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Arrhenatherum elatius.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Arrhenatherum elatius.

Synonyms:

• Arrhenatherum avenaceum (Scop.) P. Beauv. [= Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Arrhenatherum avenaceum var. bulbosum (Schrad.) Hartm. [= Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum (Willd.) Spenn. [≡ Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Arrhenatherum elatius var. tuberosum (Gilib.) Thielens [= Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Avena bulbosa Willd. [≡ Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  
• Avena elatior L. [= Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. elatius]
  
• "Avena tuberosa Gilib., nom. inval." [= Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. bulbosum]
  

Check other web resources for Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P. Beauv. ex J. Presl & C. Presl:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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