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Poaceae — Grass Family

743 species · Plants

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Liliopsida › Poales › Poaceae

Melica smithii (Porter ex A.Gray) Vasey

Melica smithii is a purple-spikelet grass that grows in deciduous North American forests among beech, maple, and hemlock.

Melica minuta L.

Melica minuta L. is a perennial plant species with a full set of described morphological characteristics.

Melica picta K.Koch

Melica picta K.Koch is a rare perennial cespitose grass that grows in hardwood and fir forests, flowering from May to June.

Melica macra Nees

Melica macra Nees is a grass species found across multiple provinces in Argentina, with detailed described morphological traits.

Pleuropogon californicus (Nees) Benth. ex Vasey

Pleuropogon californicus is an annual or perennial bunch grass native to California with characteristic semaphore-like hanging spikelets.

$Pleuropogon refractus (A.Gray) Benth. ex Vasey$

Pleuropogon refractus (A.Gray) Benth. ex Vasey

Pleuropogon refractus is a perennial bunchgrass native to western North America west of the Cascades, currently ranked apparently secure.

Glyceria borealis (Nash) Batch.

Glyceria borealis is a semiaquatic grass species native to the northern half of North America, growing in wet mountain forest areas.

Glyceria grandis S.Watson

Glyceria grandis S.Watson is a rhizomatous perennial grass reaching up to two meters tall, with sturdy leaves and branched inflorescences of small oval spikelets.

Glyceria melicaria (Michx.) F.T.Hubb.

Glyceria melicaria is a grass native to eastern North America that grows in wet habitats, with a known sterile triploid hybrid.

Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P.Beauv.

Brachypodium distachyon is a grass widely used as a model organism for grass functional genomics research.

Anisopogon avenaceus R.Br.

Anisopogon avenaceus, commonly oat speargrass, is the only species in the Australian grass genus Anisopogon, native to Victoria and New South Wales.

Phragmites mauritianus Kunth

Phragmites mauritianus Kunth is part of the Phragmites genus of wetland reed grasses with edible parts and many practical human uses.

Aristida dichotoma Michx.

Aristida dichotoma is a species of grass native to eastern North America that was first described in 1803.

Aristida longespica Poir.

Aristida longespica, or slimspike threeawn, is a grass species with one variety listed as special concern in Connecticut.

Aristida basiramea Vasey

Aristida basiramea is an annual North American grass that provides spring forage and seed food for wildlife.

Aristida lanosa Muhl. ex Elliott

Aristida lanosa, or woollysheath threeawn, is a perennial grass native to the southeastern US with specific conservation statuses and habitat preferences.

Aristida purpurascens Poir.

Aristida purpurascens Poir. is a grass species that commonly grows in dry North American habitats such as pine savannas.

Aristida stricta Michx.

Aristida stricta is a North American native warm-season wiregrass critical to fire-maintained longleaf pine savanna ecosystems.

Aristida tuberculosa Nutt.

Aristida tuberculosa Nutt. is an annual grass with multiple common names, native to the United States.

Aristida congesta Roem. & Schult.

Aristida congesta is a safe-rated perennial tussock grass native to multiple southern African countries.

Aristida vagans Cav.

Aristida vagans, threeawn speargrass, is an Australian native grass published in 1799, growing up to 80 cm tall in dry eucalyptus woodland.

Aristida behriana F.Muell.

Aristida behriana, or bunch/brush wire grass, is a native Australian perennial tufted three-awn grass found across all mainland Australian states.

Aristida contorta F.Muell.

Aristida contorta is a low Australian arid-zone grass mostly considered an undesirable low-value forage species.

Stipagrostis ciliata (Desf.) De Winter

Stipagrostis ciliata (tall bushman grass) is a Poaceae grass native from the Canary Islands to Pakistan, identifiable by a white hair ring on each node.

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Cyperaceae 585 species Bromeliaceae 202 species Juncaceae 82 species Restionaceae 18 species Typhaceae 16 species Xyridaceae 16 species Eriocaulaceae 7 species Flagellariaceae 1 species

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