Taxon: Holcus mollis L.

• the 3 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• creeping soft grass   (Source: F GB Ire ) – English
  
• creeping velvet grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• creeping-fog   (Source: F Victoria ) – English
  
• German velvet grass   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• houlque molle   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• lentåtel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
• 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; Russian Federation - Leningrad, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Tambov; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales [s.e.], Tasmania, Victoria
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Michigan, New York, Vermont
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Georgia

• 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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Angelo, R. & D. E. Boufford. Atlas of the flora of New England (on-line resource).
• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• De Sequeira, M. M. & T. Almaraz. 2001. Holcus mollis L. var. parviflorus Parn. (Poaceae): an erroneous interpretation of abnormal morphology caused by fungi. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 135:295–297.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• 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.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• 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).
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• New York Flora Association. New York flora atlas (on-line resource).
• Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. 1994. Flora of Madeira.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Reznicek, A. A. et al. 2011. Michigan flora online.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Holcus mollis.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Holcus mollis.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Notholcus mollis (L.) Hitchc.
  

Check other web resources for Holcus mollis 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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