Taxon: Agrostis stolonifera L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Agrostis stolonifera var. palustris (16 accessions)
• Agrostis stolonifera var. stolonifera (12 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
  
• agrostide stolonifère   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Flechtstraußgras   (Source: UPOV ) – German
  
• weißes Straußgras   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• agróstide estolonífera   (Source: UPOV ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; 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
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  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; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely naturalized elsewhere

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America [questionably native in n. parts]

References:

• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45. (L Peru)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Kharkevich, S. S., ed. 1985. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East. (F Russ Far East)
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000. Flora of Siberia (English translation). (F Siberia)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union. (UPOV)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rugolo de Agrasar, Z. E. & A. M. Molina. 1997. Las especies del género Agrostis L. (Gramineae: Agrostideae) de Chile. Gayana, Bot. 54:123.
• Sell, P. & G. Murrell. 1996–. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland. (F GB Ire)
• Stubbendieck, J. et al. 1992. North American range plants, ed. 4. (NAm RangPl)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• 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)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agrostis stolonifera.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Agrostis alba auct. Eur.
  (previously associated with 49 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 20 accessions)

Check other databases for Agrostis stolonifera L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: 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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