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Taxon: Agrostis capillaris L.

Genus: Agrostis
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Poeae subtribe: Agrostidinae.
Nomen number: 2017
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:62. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 01-Feb-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Feb-2008
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 32 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • browntop   (Source: Websters Dict [as A. tenuis]) – English
  • colonial bent   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • colonial bent grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • common bent   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • common bent grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • New Zealand bent grass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  • Prince Edward Island bent grass   (Source: Diversity 16:34.2000) – English
  • Rhode Island bent   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • Rhode Island bent grass   (Source: Grass US ) – English
  • waipu   (Source: Diversity 16:34.2000) – English
  • agrostide commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • agrostide fine   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  • agrostide ténue   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  • gemeines Straußgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Rotstraußgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • agróstide común   (Source: UPOV ) – Spanish
  • hierba fina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands [La Palma]
    Northern Africa: Tunisia
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan [e.]; Iran [n.]; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Eastern Siberia [w.], Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk [s.], Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk [s.], Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [e.]
    China: China - Henan, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Shanxi, Xinjiang
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. (L Noms French ed6)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron)
  • Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union. (UPOV)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Ruemmele, B. 2000. Breeding colonial bentgrass for drought, heat, and wear. Diversity 16:34–35.
  • Rugolo de Agrasar, Z. E. & A. M. Molina. 1997. Las especies del género Agrostis L. (Gramineae: Agrostideae) de Chile. Gayana, Bot. 54:101.
  • Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR) [sensu auct. = A. tenuis Sibth.].
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
  • Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict) [= A. tenuis].
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Agrostis capillaris L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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