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  2. Pooideae - Wikipedia

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    The Pooideae are the largest subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, with about 4,000 species in 15 tribes and roughly 200 genera.They include some major cereals such as wheat, barley, oat, rye and many lawn and pasture grasses.

  3. Tripsacum dactyloides - Wikipedia

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    Tripsacum dactyloides, commonly called eastern gamagrass, [3] or Fakahatchee grass, is a warm-season, sod-forming bunch grass. [4] It is widespread in the Western Hemisphere, native from the eastern United States to northern South America. [5] Its natural habitat is in sunny moist areas, such as along watercourses and in wet prairies. [5]

  4. Oryza rufipogon - Wikipedia

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    For those who accept Oryza nivara as a separate species, it is an annual, short to intermediate height (usually <2 metres (6 ft 7 in)) grass; panicles usually compact, rarely open; spikelets large, 6–10.4 millimetres (0.24–0.41 in) long and 1.9–3.4 millimetres (0.075–0.134 in) wide, with strong awn (4–10 centimetres (1.6–3.9 in) long); anthers 1.5–3 millimetres (0.059–0.118 in ...

  5. Taeniatherum - Wikipedia

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    Taeniatherum is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the grass family. [3] [4] [5]The only recognized species is medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) which is native to southern and central Europe (from Portugal to European Russia), North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), and Asia (from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and Kazakhstan).

  6. Elymus repens - Wikipedia

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    Elymus repens, commonly known as couch grass, is a very common perennial species of grass native to most of Europe, Asia, the Arctic, and northwest Africa. It has been brought into other mild northern climates for forage or erosion control, but is often considered a weed .

  7. Leersia hexandra - Wikipedia

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    Leersia hexandra is a species of grass known by the common names southern cutgrass, clubhead cutgrass, and swamp rice grass. [3] It has a pantropical distribution. [4] It is also an introduced species in many regions, sometimes becoming invasive, and it is an agricultural weed of various crops, [3] especially rice. [5]

  8. Deschampsia - Wikipedia

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    Deschampsia is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae, [4] commonly known as hair grass [5] or tussock grass.The genus is widespread across many countries. [6] [7]The genus is named for French physician and naturalist Louis Auguste Deschamps (1765–1842).

  9. Grassland - Wikipedia

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    Similar to montane grasslands, polar Arctic tundra can have grasses, but high soil moisture means that few tundras are grass-dominated today. However, during the Pleistocene glacial periods (commonly referred to as ice ages ), a grassland known as steppe-tundra or mammoth steppe occupied large areas of the Northern Hemisphere.