Alopecurus geniculatus L.

Alopecurus geniculatus L.

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Alopecurus geniculatus L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 60 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Water foxtail

English name: floating foxtail

English name: knee-joint foxtail

French name: vulpin genouillé

Italian name: Coda di topo ginocchiata

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Alopecurus geniculatus L. var. aristulatus (Michx.) Torr.
2) Alopecurus geniculatus L. var. geniculatus

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 988 ( AVG: 220.84 / 219.588 )

Gallery:

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

Alopecurus geniculatus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Tambre d'Alpago, Giardino botanico alpino del Cansiglio 'Giangio Lorenzoni', BL, Veneto, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Alopecurus geniculatus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Tavastis Australis, Lammi, Ronni., Finlandia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Alopecurus geniculatus
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: 192.

Alopecurus geniculatus
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 geniculatus
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 geniculatus
Credit: Photo by Alfonso La Rosa

Alopecurus geniculatus
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".

Alopecurus geniculatus
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

Alopecurus geniculatus
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".

Alopecurus geniculatus
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, IA, ID, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SD, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Alopecurus geniculatus L.
Map for Alopecurus geniculatus 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) Alopecurus geniculatus L. var. aristulatus (Michx.) Torr. [209]
2) Alopecurus geniculatus L. var. geniculatus [310]
3) Alopecurus glaucus Less. [192]
4) Alopecurus macounii Vasey [169]
5) Alopecurus myosuroides Huds. [3024]
6) Alopecurus pratensis L. [3129]
7) Alopecurus vaginatus (Willd.) Pall. ex Kunth [266]
8) Aloysia citrodora Paláu [224]
9) Aloysia lycioides Cham. var. schulziae (Standl.) Moldenke [195]
10) Alpinia aromatica Aubl. [182]

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