Aira caryophyllea L.
POACEAE
- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
Taxon Page:
Name: Aira caryophyllea L.
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 66 (1753)
Rank: species
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Silver hairgrass
English name: silver hair grass English name: silvery hair grass
French name: canche caryophyllée
Italian name: Nebbia maggiore
German name: Nelken-Haferschmiele
Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Annual
Synonyms:
Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Aira caryophyllea L. ssp. multiculmis (Dumort.) Bonnier & Layens
2) Aira caryophyllea L. var. capillaris (Host) Mutel
3) Aira caryophyllea L. var. caryophyllea
4) Aira caryophyllea L. var. cupaniana (Guss.) Fiori
5) Aira caryophyllea L. var. multiculmis (Dumort.) Mathieu
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Aira
Species:
Page counter: 1441 ( AVG: 220.85 / 219.588 )
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Aira caryophyllea
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la
France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in
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Aira caryophyllea
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Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
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Aira caryophyllea
Habit at Waiale Gulch, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Aira caryophyllea
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".
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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".
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de
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Aira caryophyllea
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. Washington, DC. - Non-Copyrighted Image
Aira caryophyllea
Habit at Waiale Gulch, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
Aira caryophyllea
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WY), CAN (BC, NS, YT)
Map for Aira caryophyllea 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) Aira caryophyllea L. ssp. multiculmis (Dumort.) Bonnier & Layens [170]
2) Aira caryophyllea L. var. caryophyllea [258]
3) Aira cespitosa L., orth. var. [180]
4) Aira elegans Willd. ex Kunth [294]
5) Aira praecox L. [938]
6) Ajuga reptans L. [810]
7) Albizia amara (Roxb.) B. Boivin [251]
8) Albizia gummifera (J.F. Gmel.) C.A. Sm. [249]
9) Albizia montana (Jungh.) Benth. [186]
10) Alchemilla alpina L. [620]
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