Taxon: Agrostis gigantea Roth

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°, PA°, VA°, WV°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• black bent   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• black bent grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• bonnet grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• fiorin   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• redtop   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• redtop bent   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• ju xu jian gu ying   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• agrostide blanche   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• agrostide géante   (Source: UPOV ) – French
  
• Fioringras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Riesenstraußgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• weiße Straußgras   (Source: UPOV ) – German
  
• agrostide bianca   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• polevica gigantskaâ   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• agróstide blanca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• agróstide mayor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pasto quila   (Source: Gayana Bot 54:105.) – Spanish
  
• storven   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Agrostis alba)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Agrostis gigantea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; 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 [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Italy; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile

• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

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).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• 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).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• 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.
• Kharkevich, S. S., ed. 1985. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Marzocca, A. 1994. Guia descriptiva de malezas del cono sur. 44.
• 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.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rugolo de Agrasar, Z. E. & A. M. Molina. 1997. Las especies del género Agrostis L. (Gramineae: Agrostideae) de Chile. Gayana, Bot. 54:104.
• 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.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [with two subspecies].
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostis gigantea.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agrostis gigantea.

Synonyms:

• (=) Agrostis alba auct. Amer.
  (previously associated with 22 accessions)
• (≡) Agrostis alba subsp. gigantea (Roth) V. Jirásek
  
• (≡) Agrostis alba var. gigantea (Roth) G. Mey.
  
• (=) Agrostis nigra With.
  
• (=) Agrostis stolonifera var. major (Gaudin) Farw.
  

Check other web resources for Agrostis gigantea Roth:

• 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
• 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.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• 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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