Taxon: Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus

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:

AL*, CT*, MA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

Common names:

• Chinese packing grass   (Source: Global Comp Weeds ) – English
  
• flexible sea grass   (Source: Global Comp Weeds ) – English
  
• Japanese stilt grass   (Source: Invasive Species ) – English
  
• Nepal grass   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• Nepalese browntop   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye [s.]
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido [s.e.], Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.e.]; Nepal
  Indo-China: Indochina; Thailand
  Malesia: Philippines

• naturalized elsewhere, including United States

References:

• 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)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
• Randall, R. P. 2002. A global compendium of weeds.
• Redman, D. E. 1995. Castanea 60:270–275.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource).
• University of Georgia, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. Invasive.org: invasive and exotic species of North America (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Microstegium vimineum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Microstegium vimineum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Microstegium vimineum.

Check other web resources for Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus:

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• 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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