Holcus mollis L.

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Holcus mollis L.

Nomencl. ref.: Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 1305 (1759)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Creeping velvetgrass

English name: creeping soft grass

English name: creeping velvet grass

French name: houlque molle

Italian name: Bambagione aristato

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

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

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Holcus mollis
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Holcus mollis
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Holcus mollis
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Holcus mollis
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Holcus mollis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Malesco, località Scareno, Valle Intrasca., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Holcus mollis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Scareno, Val d' Intrasca, VB, Piemonte, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Holcus mollis
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Holcus mollis
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Holcus mollis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Holcus mollis
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Holcus mollis
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Holcus mollis
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - 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".

Holcus mollis
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. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, DE, ID, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, VT, WA), CAN (BC, NF)

Distributional map for Holcus mollis L.
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(*) 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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5) Holmgrenia intricata (Hartm.) Lindb. [135]
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8) Holodiscus dumosus (Nutt. ex Hook.) A. Heller var. australis (A. Heller) Ley [97]
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