Taxon: Phalaris canariensis L.

Common names:

• Canary grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• seed Canary grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• alpiste des Canaries   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kanariengras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• scagliola   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• kanarii-kusa-yoshi   (Source: Grass Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• alpista   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• alpiste   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kanariegräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as cereal   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (for birdseed fide F Turk)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Estonia

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium
  East Europe: Belarus
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain - Baleares
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Morocco

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Hungary; Netherlands
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina - Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, La Pampa

References:

• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (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).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Baldini, R. M. 1995. Revision of the genus Phalaris L. (Gramineae). Webbia 49:285.
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
• Cogliatti, M. et al. 2011. Canaryseed (Phalaris canariensis L.) accessions from nineteen countries show useful genetic variation for agronomic traits. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 91:37–48.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• 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).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:482.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:168.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–380.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• 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 Phalaris canariensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Phalaris canariensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phalaris canariensis.

Check other web resources for Phalaris canariensis 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
• 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
• 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:

• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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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