Taxon: Leersia oryzoides (L.) Sw.

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

Common names:

• cutgrass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• rice cutgrass   (Source: Grass Tex ) – English
  
• ricegrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• vildris   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye
  China: China - Fujian, Hainan, Heilongjiang, Hunan, Xinjiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan [n.w.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; 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; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia, Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana [s.e.], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [s.e. (Goshen Co.)]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida [n.], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Utah
  Mexico [n.e.]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia

References:

• Australia's Virtual Herbarium (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Dorn, R. D. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming.
• Dorn, R. D. 1984. Vascular plants of Montana.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Judziewicz, E. J. et al. 2000. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 39:66.
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• 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.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Leersia oryzoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Leersia oryzoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Leersia oryzoides.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Homalocenchrus oryzoides (L.) Haller
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Phalaris oryzoides L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Leersia oryzoides (L.) Sw.:

• 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 of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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
• 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:

• Florets and caryopses: 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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