Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench

Nomencl. ref.: Methodus: 183 (1794)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Purple moorgrass

English name: moor grass

English name: purple moor grass

French name: molinie bleue

Italian name: Gramigna azzurrognola

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Aira caerulea L.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench ssp. arundinacea (Schrank) K. Richt. [excluded]
2) Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench ssp. litoralis (Host) H. Paul

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 975 ( AVG: 222.06 / 291.169 )

Gallery:

Molinia caerulea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vigo Di Cadore, località Casera Razzo, ai bordi della strada per Laggio nei pressi del Rifugio Ten. Fabbro, BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Molinia caerulea
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino

Molinia caerulea
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

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

Molinia caerulea
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".

Molinia caerulea
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".

Molinia caerulea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Molinia caerulea
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Molinia caerulea
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Molinia caerulea
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: 237.

Molinia caerulea
Credit: Photo by Pino Perino

Molinia caerulea
Credit: Photo by Mirna and Attilio Marzorati

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, MA, ME, NJ, NY, OR, PA, RI, VT, WI), CAN (NS, ON, QC), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench
Map for Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench
(*) 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) Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench ssp. arundinacea (Schrank) K. Richt. [excluded] [876]
2) Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench ssp. litoralis (Host) H. Paul [142]
3) Molinia litoralis Host [171]
4) Mollugo berteriana Ser. [160]
5) Mollugo radiata Ruiz & Pav. [141]
6) Momisia iguanaea (Jacq.) Rose & Standl. [184]
7) Momordica elaterium L. [140]
8) Monarda bradburiana Beck [320]
9) Monarda fistulosa L. var. brevis Fosberg & Artz [151]
10) Monarda punctata L. ssp. arkansana E.M. McClint. & Epling [93]

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