Agrostis canina L.
POACEAE
- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Agrostis canina L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 62 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Velvet bentgrass
English name: velvet bent English name: velvet bent grass
Spanish name: agróstide perruna
French name: agrostide des chiens
Italian name: Cappellini delle torbiere
German name: Sumpf-Straußgras
Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
Synonyms:
= Agrostis canina L. var. varians (Thuill.) Ducomm.
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Agrostis canina L. ssp. montana (Hartm.) Hartm.
2) Agrostis canina L. var. arida Schltdl.
3) Agrostis canina L. var. montana Hartm.
4) Agrostis canina L. var. varians (Thuill.) Ducomm.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Agrostis
Species:
Page counter: 2737 ( AVG: 221.17 / 219.883 )
Gallery:
Agrostis canina
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
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Agrostis canina
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Agrostis canina
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 205.
Agrostis canina
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image
Agrostis canina
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, DE, HI, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, RI, TN, VT, WV), CAN (LB, NB, NF, NS, PE, QC), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)
Map for Agrostis canina L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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More species:
1) Agrostis canina L. ssp. montana (Hartm.) Hartm. [168]
2) Agrostis canina L. var. arida Schltdl. [179]
3) Agrostis canina L. var. montana Hartm. [184]
4) Agrostis capillaris L. [2648]
5) Agrostis cryptandra Torr. [188]
6) Agrostis diegoensis Vasey [197]
7) Agrostis gigantea Roth [2330]
8) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. [226]
9) Agrostis lepida Hitchc. [171]
10) Agrostis palustris Huds. [198]
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