Taxon: Holcus lanatus 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

Common names:

• fog grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• soft-meadow grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• velvet grass   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• woolly soft grass   (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
  
• Yorkshire-fog   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• rong mao cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• holoque laineuse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• houlque velue   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• wolliges Honiggras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• erba bambagiona   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• shiragegaya   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• udanpul   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• erva-lanar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• heno blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• luddtåtel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Holcus lanatus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Jiangxi, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma [s.], Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana [w.], Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Canada
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil [s.]
  Southern South America: Chile

References:

• Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist.
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• 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).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993–. Flora of Victoria.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• 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.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• 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.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:387–388.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:163–164.
• 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].
• 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 Holcus lanatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Holcus lanatus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Holcus lanatus.

Synonyms:

• (=) Holcus argenteus C. Agardh ex Roem. & Schult.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Notholcus lanatus (L.) Nash ex Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)

Check other web resources for Holcus lanatus 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
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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.
• Caryopsis: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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