Taxon: Agrostis exarata Trin.

Common names:

• spike bent   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• spike bent grass   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English
  
• spike redtop   (Source: Intermt F ) – English
  
• western redtop   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Intermt F; Food Feed Crops US)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kamchatka [s.], Kurile Islands
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory [w.], Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Nebraska [w.], South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico [n.]

References:

• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Douglas, G. W. et al., eds. 1994. The vascular plants of British Colombia.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Kharkevich, S. S., ed. 1985. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
• Wiggins, I. L. 1980. Flora of Baja California.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostis exarata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agrostis exarata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agrostis exarata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Agrostis exarata var. monolepis (Torr.) Hitchc.
  
• (=) Polypogon monspeliensis var. monolepis Torr.
  

Check other web resources for Agrostis exarata Trin.:

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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