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Taxon: Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.

Genus: Alopecurus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Poeae subtribe: Alopecurinae.
Nomen number: 2650
Place of publication: Fl. angl. 23. 1762
Name verified on: 06-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 20-Nov-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 11 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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 Invaders Database System

Common names:

  • 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)
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Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • 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; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

      Naturalized:
  • widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. (L Noms French ed6)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rechinger, K. H. 1943. Flora aegaea: flora der inseln und halbinseln des Agaischen Meeres. (F Aegaea)
  • Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
  • Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
  • Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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