Alopecurus foxtail grass , is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family . It is common across temperate and subtropical parts of Eurasia , northern Africa , and the Americas , as well as naturalized in Australia and on various islands.[6]
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meadow foxtail Alopecurus pratensis [5] Foxtails can be annual or perennial . They grow in tufts. They have flat leaves and blunt ligules (a small flap at the junction of leaf and stem). Their inflorescence is a dense panicle (a branching head without terminal flower ) with 1-flowered spikelets . A few, particularly A. myosuroides , are considered weeds , others are very decorative and are used in bouquets of dried flowers.
Species[4] Alopecurus aequalis Alopecurus albovii Alopecurus anatolicus Alopecurus apiatus Alopecurus arundinaceus Alopecurus aucheri Alopecurus baptarrhenius Alopecurus bonariensis Alopecurus borii Alopecurus bornmuelleri Alopecurus brachystachus Alopecurus bulbosus Alopecurus carolinianus Alopecurus creticus Alopecurus dasyanthus Alopecurus davisii Samos Island in GreeceAlopecurus geniculatus Alopecurus gerardii Alopecurus glacialis Alopecurus × haussknechtianus Alopecurus heliochloides Alopecurus himalaicus Xinjiang Alopecurus hitchcockii Jujuy Alopecurus japonicus Alopecurus laguroides Alopecurus lanatus Alopecurus longiaristatus Heilongjiang , Primorye , Khabarovsk Alopecurus magellanicus Falkland Is , South Georgia Alopecurus × marssonii Alopecurus mucronatus Alopecurus myosuroides Alopecurus nepalensis Alopecurus × plettkei Alopecurus ponticus Alopecurus pratensis meadow foxtail – Eurasia from Azores to MongoliaAlopecurus rendlei Alopecurus saccatus WA OR ID CA ), Baja California Alopecurus setarioides Alopecurus textilis Alopecurus turczaninovii Alopecurus × turicensis Alopecurus utriculatus Alopecurus vaginatus Alopecurus × winklerianus formerly included[4] Numerous species once considered part of Alopecurus but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Agrostis Cornucopiae Crypsis Koeleria Milium Muhlenbergia Pennisetum Perotis Phleum Polypogon Rostraria Setaria Tribolium
lectotype designated by Cope, Regnum Veg. 127: 17 (1993)
illustration from Thomé, Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885
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