Taxon: Phalaris caroliniana Walter

Common names:

• Carolina Canary grass   (Source: Grass Tex ) – English
  
• May grass   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Ohio [s.e.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas [s. & e.], Missouri, Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [s.e.], Oregon [w.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida [n.], Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, 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, Nevada [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Puerto Rico

References:

• Baldini, R. M. 1995. Revision of the genus Phalaris L. (Gramineae). Webbia 49:299.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gould, F. W. & R. Moran. 1981. The grasses of Baja California, Mexico.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phalaris caroliniana.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phalaris caroliniana.

Check other web resources for Phalaris caroliniana Walter:

• 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
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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