Taxon: Anthoxanthum odoratum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Anthoxanthum odoratum subsp. alpinum (no accessions)
• Anthoxanthum odoratum subsp. odoratum (no accessions)

Common names:

• scented vernal grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sweet vernal grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sweet-scent vernal grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• huang hua mao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• xiang huang hua mao   (Source: F Taiwan ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• flouve odorante   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• foin d'odeur   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• gewöhnliches Ruchgras   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Ruchgras   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• paleo odoroso   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Italian
  
• harugaya   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• alesta olorosa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• grama de olor   (Source: HerbSpices ) – Spanish
  
• vårbrodd   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: essential oils   (fide HerbSpices; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Anthoxanthum odoratum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.w.]; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Xinjiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [w.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• 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).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• 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.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• 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).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• 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 Anthoxanthum odoratum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Anthoxanthum odoratum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Anthoxanthum odoratum.

Synonyms:

• Anthoxanthum alpinum Á. Löve & D. Löve [≡ Anthoxanthum odoratum subsp. alpinum]
  

Check other web resources for Anthoxanthum odoratum 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 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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