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Taxon:  Phalaris aquatica L.



Summary
Genus:
Phalaris
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Phalaridinae
Nomen number:
27511
Place of publication:
Cent. pl. I:4. 1755 (Amoen. acad. 4:264. 1759)
Verified:
01/25/1996 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
3 (3  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
Phalaris nodosa L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Phalaris bulbosa auct.
Phalaris stenoptera Hack.
Phalaris tuberosa L.
Phalaris tuberosa L. var. stenoptera (Hack.) Hitchc.
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. 1995 Note: CRC Press. Revised version of AH 170
  3. Baldini, R. M. 1995. Revision of the genus Phalaris L. (Gramineae). Webbia 49:276.
  4. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
  5. Englert, J. M. et al. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. 1999-
  6. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
  7. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Phalaris+aquatica&quantity=1
  9. Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14. 2003
  10. Gibbs-Russell, G. E. et al. Grasses of southern Africa. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa vol. 58. 1990
  11. Hickman, J. C., ed. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. 1993
  12. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  13. International Seed Testing Association. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982
  14. Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. 2004 http://www.gobcan.es/cmayot/interreg/atlantico/documentos/LESDCanarias.pdf
  15. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  16. Kellerman, T. S. et al. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. 1988
  17. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  18. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  19. Press, J. R. & M. J. Short, eds. Flora of Madeira. 1994
  20. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 Note: = P. tuberosa
  21. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  22. Weber, E. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. 2003
  23. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
  24. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. 1994
Common names
English
Australian phalaris –
bulbous Canary grass –
Harding grass –
Toowoomba Canary grass –
French
alpiste bulbeux –
herbe de Harding –
phalaris tubéreux –
German
knolliges Glanzgras –
Italian
falaride tuberosa –
Japanese Rōmaji
hādhingu-gurasu –
Portuguese
capim-doce –
Spanish
rabillo de cordero –
Swedish
knölflen –
Transcribed Chinese
shui ge cao –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaPortugalMadeira Islands 
1NativeAfricaMacaronesiaSpainCanary Islands 
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern Asia******  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaCyprus  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaIraq  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaLebanon  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaSyria  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaTurkey  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeAlbania  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeBulgaria  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeCroatia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeGreeceCreteincl. Crete
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly incl. Sicily
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeFrance incl. Corsica
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropePortugal  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeSpain incl. Baleares
4NaturalizedAfricaSouthern AfricaSouth Africa  
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustralia  
4NaturalizedAustralasiaNew ZealandNew Zealand  
4NaturalizedEuropeNorthern EuropeIreland  
4NaturalizedEuropeNorthern EuropeUnited Kingdom  
4NaturalizedNorthern America United States  
Native
Africa
  • MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands], Portugal [Madeira Islands]
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan
  • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Iraq, ******, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Europe
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece [Crete (incl. Crete)], Croatia, Italy (incl. Sicily)
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Naturalized
Africa
  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
  • NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand
Europe
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom, Ireland
Northern America
  • REGION: United States
Economic Uses
Animal food
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Kellerman et al.) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec) –


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