Taxon: Dactylis glomerata L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

DE°, MD°, NH°, NJ°, PA°, VA°, WV°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Dactylis glomerata subsp. glomerata (2 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. himalayensis (1 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. hispanica (80 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. ibizensis (1 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. judaica (no accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. juncinella (2 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata (13 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. lusitanica (3 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. santai (3 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. smithii (3 accessions)
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. woronowii (5 accessions)

Common names:

• barnyard grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• cocksfoot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• cocksfoot grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• cockspur   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• orchard grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• ya mao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• dactyle aggloméré   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• dactyle pelotonné   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• gramen pelotonné   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Knaulgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• dattile   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• dactilo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• panasco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• jopillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• hundäxing   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• lundäxing   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata]
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Dactylis glomerata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; 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: Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - West Virginia
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica
  Southern South America: Argentina; Uruguay

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California, Utah

References:

• Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.
• 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).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Bushman, B. S. et al. 2011. Orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) EST and SSR marker development, annotation, and transferability. Theor. Appl. Genet. 123:119–129.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• 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).
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• 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.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:242.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–380.
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• 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).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dactylis glomerata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dactylis glomerata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dactylis glomerata.

Synonyms:

• Dactylis aschersoniana Graebn. [= Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata]
  (previously associated with 15 accessions)
• (=) Dactylis glaucescens Willd.
  
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. aschersoniana (Graebn.) Thell. [= Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata]
  
• Dactylis glomerata var. hispanica (Roth) W. D. J. Koch [≡ Dactylis glomerata subsp. hispanica]
  (previously associated with 81 accessions)
• (=) "Dactylis glomerata var. ibizensis ined.?"
  
• Dactylis glomerata var. lobata Drejer [≡ Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata]
  
• (=) "Dactylis glomerata var. lusitanica ined.?"
  
• Dactylis glomerata subsp. polygama (Horv.) Domin [= Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata]
  
• (=) Dactylis glomerata var. varonwii Ovcz.?
  
• Dactylis hispanica Roth [≡ Dactylis glomerata subsp. hispanica]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Dactylis polygama Horv. [= Dactylis glomerata subsp. lobata]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Dactylis woronowii Ovcz. [≡ Dactylis glomerata subsp. woronowii]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Dactylis glomerata L.:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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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