Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Alopecurus alpinus Sm.


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

Taxon Page:

Name: Alopecurus alpinus Sm. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Engl. Bot. 16: t. 1126. 1803
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Boreal alopecurus
en English name: alpine foxtail
English name: polar foxtail
Italian name: Coda di topo alpina

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Alopecurus alpinus Sm. ssp. glaucus (Less.) Hultén
= Alopecurus alpinus Sm. ssp. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hultén
= Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. borealis (Trin.) Griseb.
= Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. glaucus (Less.) Krylov
= Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. occidentalis (Scribn. & Tweedy) B. Boivin
= Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hultén
= Alopecurus borealis Trin.
= Alopecurus glaucus Less.
= Alopecurus occidentalis Scribn. & Tweedy


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. ssp. glaucus (Less.) Hultén
2) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. ssp. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hultén
3) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. borealis (Trin.) Griseb.
4) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. glaucus (Less.) Krylov
5) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. occidentalis (Scribn. & Tweedy) B. Boivin
6) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hultén



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 1709 ( AVG: 218.83 / 217.759 )



Gallery:

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Franco Fenaroli

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
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.

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

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Franco Fenaroli

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
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: 193.

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Franco Fenaroli

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
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".

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Franco Fenaroli

Alopecurus alpinus
Alopecurus alpinus
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CO, ID, MT, UT, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL)

Distributional map for Alopecurus alpinus Sm.
Map for Alopecurus alpinus Sm.
(*) 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) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. ssp. glaucus (Less.) Hultén [208]
2) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. ssp. stejnegeri (Vasey) Hultén [183]
3) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. borealis (Trin.) Griseb. [225]
4) Alopecurus alpinus Sm. var. occidentalis (Scribn. & Tweedy) B. Boivin [203]
5) Alopecurus aristulatus Michx. [208]
6) Alopecurus brachystachus M. Bieb. [281]
7) Alopecurus dasyanthus Trautv. [230]
8) Alopecurus howellii Vasey [174]
9) Alopecurus pratensis L. [3083]
10) Aloysia citriodora Paláu, orth. var. [161]

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