Taxon: Aira caryophyllea L.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Aira caryophyllea subsp. caryophylla (1 accessions)
• Aira caryophyllea subsp. multiculmis (no accessions)

Common names:

• silver hair grass   (Source: F GB Ire ) – English
  
• silvery hair grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• aira caryophyllée   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• canche caryophyllée   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• Nelken-Haferschmiele   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• vittåtel   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Nigeria
  South Tropical Africa: Malawi
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Turkey
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Sweden [doubtfully native]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Lithuania; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: Lesotho [natzd.?]; South Africa - Eastern Cape [natzd.?], Free State [natzd.?], KwaZulu-Natal [natzd.?], Northern Cape [natzd.?], Western Cape [natzd.?]
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Canada
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Ecuador
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores

References:

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• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. [= Aira cupaniana].
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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Aira caryophyllea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Aira caryophyllea.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Aira caryophyllea.

Synonyms:

• Aira multiculmis Dumort. [≡ Aira caryophyllea subsp. multiculmis]
  

Check other web resources for Aira caryophyllea 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.

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.

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