Taxon: Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.

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:

WA*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• annual foxtail   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• black grass   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• black twitch   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• large foxtail   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• slender foxtail   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• vulpin des champs   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• capim-cauda-de-raposa-do-campo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• renkavle   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 36. 1997)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 36. 1997)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Harv Pap Bot 9:64. 1996)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt [n.]; Libya [n.]; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Netherlands
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Sweden
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Slovakia
  Southeastern Europe: Slovenia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - West Virginia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

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).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Baldwin, B. G. et al., eds. The Jepson manual: vascular plants of California (on-line resource).
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• 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.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. 36.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rechinger, K. H. 1943. Flora aegaea: flora der inseln und halbinseln des Agaischen Meeres.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:104.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tucker, G. C. 1996. The genera of Pooideae (Gramineae) in the southeastern United States. Harvard Pap. Bot. 9:64.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Alopecurus myosuroides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Alopecurus myosuroides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Alopecurus myosuroides.

Synonyms:

• (=) Alopecurus agrestis L.
  

Check other web resources for Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.:

• 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
• 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:

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

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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