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

Common names:

• Asian stilt grass   (Source: web document) – English
  
• Japanese stilt grass   (Source: web document) – English
  
• Nepal grass   (Source: Pl Invasion ) – English
  
• Nepalese browntop   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Vietnamese stilt grass   (Source: web document) – English
  

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

      Native:

• 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:

• naturalized elsewhere, including United States

References:

• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
• Redman, D. E. 1995. Castanea 60:270–275.
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Microstegium vimineum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Microstegium vimineum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit and seed: 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316751 (09 February 2010)

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