Taxon: Phalaris minor Retz.

Common names:

• annual Canary grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bristle-spike Canary grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• lesser Canary grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• little-seed Canary grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• small Canary grass   (Source: R. P. Ellis, p.c.) – English
  
• wild Canary grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• phalaris mineur   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• kleines Glanzgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• talaceiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• alfarino   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• pasto-romano   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• alpiste valillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pasto romano   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• småflen   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (for livestock or for birdseed fide Webbia 49:280. 1995; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Animal food: forage   (for livestock or for birdseed fide Webbia 49:280. 1995; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Phalaris minor from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain; Kuwait; Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Germany; Netherlands
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Kyushu [n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Uruguay

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom

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).
• Baldini, R. M. 1995. Revision of the genus Phalaris L. (Gramineae). Webbia 49:279.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• 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.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica. [comments that the only specimen known for the country might represent Phalaris aquatica].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• 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).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• 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. 48:485.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:169.
• 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.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phalaris minor.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phalaris minor.

Check other web resources for Phalaris minor Retz.:

• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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:

• 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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