Taxon: Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.

Common names:

• Chinese fountain grass   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• foxtail fountain grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• swamp foxtail grass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• swamp-foxtail   (Source: F NSWales ) – English
  
• lang wei cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• pennisétum   (Source: Zander Ency ) – French
  
• japanisches Federborstengras   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• lampborstgräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F; Zander ed14; F NAmer)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide F ChinaEng)
  
• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Assam
  Indo-China: Myanmar
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New York, Pennsylvania
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Florida

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).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chemisquy, M. A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106:127. [= Cenchrus compressus (R. Br.) Morrone].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Huang, D. et al. 2010. Grass hedges for the protection of sloping lands from runoff and soil loss: An example from Northern China. Soil Tillage Res. 110:251–256.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Meyer, M. H. 2012. Chapter 3. Ornamental grasses in the United States. Hort. Rev. 39:121–152.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wilson, S. B. & G. W. Knox. 2009. Landscape performance of green fountain grass alternatives grown in northern and southern Florida. HortTechnol. 19:471–476.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pennisetum alopecuroides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pennisetum alopecuroides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pennisetum alopecuroides.

Synonyms:

• (=) Alopecurus hordeiformis L.
  
• (=) Cenchrus compressus (R. Br.) Morrone
  
• (=) Cenchrus purpurascens Thunb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Panicum alopecuroides L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Pennisetum compressum R. Br.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Pennisetum hordeiforme (Thunb.) Spreng.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Pennisetum japonicum Trin. ex Spreng.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.:

• 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
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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