Taxon: Glyceria maxima (Hartm.) Holmb.

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

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:

CTª, MAª, NHª, WAª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• reed sweet grass   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• reed-meadow grass   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• water-meadow grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• glicéria-maior   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• jättegröe   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2; Noxweed Aust; F USSR, due to presence of smut only in fresh foliage)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Glyceria maxima from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; 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
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States [s.e.]

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• 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).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• 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.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:375.
• 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).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Glyceria maxima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Glyceria maxima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Glyceria maxima.

Synonyms:

• (=) Glyceria aquatica (L.) Wahlb.
  
• (=) Glyceria spectabilis Mert. & W. D. J. Koch
  
• (≡) Molinia maxima Hartm. (basionym)
  
• (=) Panicularia aquatica (L.) Kuntze
  
• (=) Poa aquatica L.
  

Check other web resources for Glyceria maxima (Hartm.) Holmb.:

• 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
• 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:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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