Taxon: Beckmannia syzigachne (Steud.) Fernald

Common names:

• American slough grass   (Source: F GPlains ) – English
  
• slough grass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia [s.], Western Siberia [s.]
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China [n.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.e.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Michigan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Iowa [n.], Minnesota, Nebraska [n.], North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [n.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California [n.], Nevada, Utah

• naturalized elsewhere

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North America

References:

• 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).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Douglas, G. W. et al., eds. 1994. The vascular plants of British Colombia.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• 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.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Ownbey, G. B. & T. Morley. 1991. Vascular plants of Minnesota: a checklist and atlas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Beckmannia syzigachne.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Beckmannia syzigachne.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Beckmannia syzigachne.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Panicum syzigachne Steud. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Beckmannia syzigachne (Steud.) Fernald:

• 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
• 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
• 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

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• 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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