Agrostis gigantea Roth

Agrostis gigantea Roth

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Agrostis gigantea Roth

Nomencl. ref.: Tent. Fl. Germ. 1: 31 (1788)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Redtop

English name: black bent

English name: black bent grass

Spanish name: pasto quila

French name: agrostide géante

Italian name: Cappellini maggiori

German name: weiße Straußgras

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Agrostis alba auct. non L.
= Agrostis gigantea Roth var. dispar (Michx.) Philipson
= Agrostis nigra With.
= Agrostis stolonifera L. ssp. gigantea (Roth) Schübl. & G. Martens
= Agrostis stolonifera L. var. major (Gaudin) Farw.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Agrostis gigantea Roth var. dispar (Michx.) Philipson

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 2338 ( AVG: 221.73 / 290.652 )

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Agrostis gigantea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Agrostis gigantea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Palude di Sois, nei pressi di Belluno. , BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Agrostis gigantea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Agrostis gigantea
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: 203.

Agrostis gigantea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Agrostis gigantea
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

Agrostis gigantea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Agrostis gigantea Roth
Map for Agrostis gigantea Roth
(*) 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 gigantea Roth var. dispar (Michx.) Philipson [149]
2) Agrostis glomerata auct. non (J. Presl) Kunth [167]
3) Agrostis hallii Vasey var. pringlei (Scribn.) Hitchc. [193]
4) Agrostis hyemalis (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. var. scabra (Willd.) Blomquist [179]
5) Agrostis idahoensis Nash var. bakeri (Rydb.) W.A. Weber [172]
6) Agrostis interrupta L. [146]
7) Agrostis longiligula Hitchc. var. australis J.T. Howell [140]
8) Agrostis mertensii Trin. [817]
9) Agrostis minima L. [168]
10) Agrostis perennans (Walter) Tuck. var. elata (Pursh) Hitchc. [184]

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