Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv.

Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv.

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv.

Nomencl. ref.: Ess. Agrostogr. 31: 151 (1812)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Loose silkybent

English name: common wind grass

English name: loose silky-bent

French name: agrostide jouet-du-vent

Italian name: Cappellini dei prati

Grown habit: Graminoid
Duration: Annual

Synonyms:
= Agrostis spica-venti L.

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 580 ( AVG: 222.02 / 291.019 )

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Apera spica-venti
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

Apera spica-venti
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Cantone di Zurigo, campo di frumento alle porte della città., Svizzera, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Apera spica-venti
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Apera spica-venti
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Lienz, Austria, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Apera spica-venti
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".

Apera spica-venti
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Apera spica-venti
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: 213.

Apera spica-venti
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

Apera spica-venti
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (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'.

Apera spica-venti
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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

Apera spica-venti
Credit: Photo by Alessandro Alessandrini

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CT, DC, DE, ID, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NY, OH, OR, PA, TX, VT, WA), CAN (ON)

Distributional map for Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv.
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(*) 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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