Taxon: Agrostis stolonifera L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris (44 accessions)
• Agrostis stolonifera var. stolonifera (14 accessions)

Common names:

• creeping bent   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• creeping bent grass   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English   [Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris]
  
• creeping bent grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• fiorin   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• spreading bent   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• xi bo li ya jian gu ying   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• agrostide stolonifère   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Flechtstraußgras   (Source: UPOV ) – German
  
• weißes Straußgras   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• agrostide palustre   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• agrostide stolonifera   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• polevica pobegonosnaâ   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• agróstide estolonífera   (Source: UPOV ) – Spanish
  
• krypven   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran [n.]; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Buryatia, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye
  China: China - Anhui, Gansu, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.w.]; Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; 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; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Greenland

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Jamaica
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

References:

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• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• 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).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
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• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [as Agrostis stoloniferapalustris].
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• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostis stolonifera.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agrostis stolonifera.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agrostis stolonifera.

Synonyms:

• (=) Agrostis alba auct. Eur.
  (previously associated with 51 accessions)
• Agrostis alba subsp. stolonifera (L.) V. Jirásek [≡ Agrostis stolonifera var. stolonifera]
  
• Agrostis alba var. stolonifera (L.) Sm. [≡ Agrostis stolonifera var. stolonifera]
  
• Agrostis palustris Huds. [≡ Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris]
  (previously associated with 22 accessions)

Check other web resources for Agrostis stolonifera 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• 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: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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