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Agrostis canina is a perennial plant, with stolons but no rhizomes, and culms which grow to a height of up to 75 centimetres (30 in). [4] It is frequently confused with Agrostis vinealis (formerly treated as a subspecies or variety of A. canina), which grows in more upland habitats and has rhizomes rather than stolons. [3]
It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass . With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, [ 4 ] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family , following the Asteraceae , Orchidaceae , Fabaceae and Rubiaceae .
Senisetum Honda. Trichodium Michx. Vilfa Adans. Agrostis (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world. [4][5][6][7][8][9] It has been bred as a GMO creeping bent grass. [10]
Poa pratensis. Poa pratensis, commonly known as Kentucky bluegrass (or blue grass), smooth meadow-grass, or common meadow-grass, is a perennial species of grass native to practically all of Europe, North Asia and the mountains of Algeria and Morocco. There is disagreement about its native status in North America, with some sources considering ...
Festuca (fescue) is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the grass family Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of 10–200 cm (4–79 in) and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. [2] The genus is closely related to ryegrass (Lolium ...
Poa[2] is a genus of about 570 species of grasses, native to the temperate regions of both hemispheres. Common names include meadow-grass (mainly in Europe and Asia), bluegrass (mainly in North America), tussock (some New Zealand species), and speargrass. Poa (πόα) is Greek for ' fodder '. Poa are members of the subfamily Pooideae of the ...
Digitaria didactyla is a species of grass known by the common names blue couch, [1] Queensland blue couch, blue serangoon grass, green serangoon grass, blue stargrass, [2] and petit gazon (in Mauritius). [3] It is native to Mauritius, Réunion, parts of mainland Africa, [3] and Madagascar. [4] It has been introduced widely outside its native ...
Paspalum is a genus of plants in the grass family. [ 3 ][ 4 ] The group is widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Commonly known as paspalum, bahiagrasses, crowngrasses or dallis grasses, many of the species are tall perennial New World grasses. They are warm-season C 4 grasses and are most diverse in subtropical ...