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Scientific or common name:

Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.


POACEAE Family selection - Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Preliminary Catalogue of New York 1888
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Winter bentgrass
en English name: hair grass
English name: small bent
French name: agrostide d'hiver

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Agrostis antecedens E.P. Bicknell
= Cornucopiae hyemalis Walter


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. geminata (Trin.) Hitchc.
2) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. scabra (Willd.) Blomquist
3) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. tenuis (Tuck.) Gleason



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Agrostis
Species:


Page counter: 228 ( AVG: 221.72 / 290.649 )



Gallery:

Agrostis hyemalis
Agrostis hyemalis
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester. - Not copyrighted image

Agrostis hyemalis
Agrostis hyemalis
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: 207.

Agrostis hyemalis
Agrostis hyemalis
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV), USA+ (Puerto Rico), CAN (ON)

Distributional map for Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
Map for Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
(*) 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 hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. geminata (Trin.) Hitchc. [174]
2) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. scabra (Willd.) Blomquist [179]
3) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. tenuis (Tuck.) Gleason [181]
4) Agrostis indica L. [150]
5) Agrostis interrupta L. [146]
6) Agrostis longiligula Hitchc. [133]
7) Agrostis maxima Roxb. [88]
8) Agrostis microphylla Steud. var. hendersonii (Hitchc.) Beetle [185]
9) Agrostis pallens Trin. [297]
10) Agrostis radiata L. [167]

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