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Scientific name Agrostis canina
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 62 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Agrostis canina var. mutica Sinclair Hort. Gram. Woburn. 226 1816
Agrostis canina var. nivea (Curtis) Hook. Fl. Scotica 24 1821
Agrostis canina var. pudica Döll Rhein. Fl. 108. 1843
Agrostis canina var. stolonifera Blytt Norsk Fl. 151. 1847
Agrostis canina var. transsilvanica (Schur) Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 50. 1859
Agrostis canina var. varians (Thuill.) Ducommun Taschenb. Schweiz. Bot. 852 1869
Agraulus caninus P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. : 5 (1812)
Agraulus pallidus Gray Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. 2: 149 (1821 publ. 1822)
Agrestis canina (L.) Bubani Fl. Pyren. 4: 286 (1901)
Agrostis affinis Kunth Enum. Pl. 1: 228 (1833)
Agrostis alba f. aristata Millsp. Bull. West Virginia Agric. Exp. Sta. 24: 469 (1892)
Agrostis alba var. aristata A.Gray Manual : 578 (1848)
Agrostis alpina Leyss. Fl. Halens. , ed. 2: 16 (1783)
Agrostis arenaria Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 51 (1859)
Agrostis arenosa Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 736 (1866)
Agrostis canina f. fasciculata J.Rousseau Contr. Inst. Bot. Univ. Montréal 32: 56 1938
Agrostis canina f. varians (Thuill.) Beldie Fl. Republ. Socialist. România 12: 158 (1972)
Agrostis canina f. vinealis (With.) Beldie Fl. Republ. Socialist. România 12: 158 (1972)
Agrostis canina subsp. aspromontana Brullo, Scelsi & Spamp. Veg. Aspromonte : 43 (2001)
Agrostis canina subsp. granatensis Romero García, Blanca & C.Morales Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 43: 52 (1986)
Agrostis canina subsp. monteluccii Selvi Webbia 49: 52 (1994)
Agrostis canina var. alpina Alph.Wood Amer. Bot. Fl. 2: 384 (1871)
Agrostis canina var. arenosa Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 50. 1859
Agrostis canina var. decipiens Douin Fl. Ill. France 11: 142 1932
Agrostis canina var. humilis Willk. & Lange Prodr. Fl. Hispan. 1: 54. 1861
Agrostis fascicularis Sincl. Hort. Gram. Woburn. : 154 (1816)
Agrostis geniculata Lam. Fl. Franç. 3: 572 (1779)
Agrostis hybrida Gaud. Agrost. Helv. 1: 66 (1811)
Agrostis leersii J.F.Gmel. Syst. Nat. ed. 13[bis] 1495. 1792 (1792)
Agrostis mutabilis Sibth. Fl. Oxon. : 36 (1794)
Agrostis nana Delarbre Fl. Auvergne , ed. 2: 664 (1800)
Agrostis nivea Sincl. Hort. Gram. Woburn. : 152 (1816)
Agrostis nobilis De Not. ex Parl. Fl. Ital. 1: 186 (1850)
Agrostis stricta De Not. ex Parl. Fl. Ital. 1: 187 (1850)
Agrostis sudavica M.Natkevicaite-Ivanauskiene Lietuvos T.S.R. Fl. 2: 677 (1963)
Agrostis tenuis Bastard ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 277 (1817)
Agrostis transilvanica Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 50 (1859)
Agrostis varians Thuill. Fl. Env. Paris , ed. 2: 3 (1799)
Agrostis violaceo-purpurea Gilib. Excerc. Phyt. 2: 525 (1792)
Agrostis wightii Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 168 (1854)
Avena canina Scop. Intr. Hist. Nat. : 74 (1777)
Milium caninum (L.) Lag. Elench. Pl. : 10 (1816)
Trichodium arenarium Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 51 (1859)
Trichodium arenosum Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 736 (1866)
Trichodium caninum Schrad. Fl. Germ. : 198 (1806)
Trichodium caninum var. turfosum Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 737. 1866
Trichodium coerulescens Link ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 2: 701 (1841)
Trichodium diffusum Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 69 (1821)
Trichodium hybridum Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 282 (1817)
Trichodium kitaibelii Schult. Oestr. Fl. , ed. 2, 1: 165 (1814)
Trichodium montanum Willd. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 2: 701 (1841)
Trichodium niveum Philipson J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 51: 84. 1937 (1937)
Trichodium tenerrimum Schur Verh. Mitth. Siebenbürg. Vereins Naturwiss. Hermannstadt 4: 83 (1853)
Trichodium transsilvanicum Schur Verh. Mitth. Siebenbürg. Vereins Naturwiss. Hermannstadt 4: 83 (1853)
Trichodium turfosum Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 787 (1866)
Vilfa hybrida P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. : 16 (1812)
Vilfa vulgaris Wight ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 168 (1854)
Agrostis canina var. opulenta Portal Agrostis France 81 (188; figs.). 2009 [27 Feb 2009]
Agrostis tenuifolia Curt. Pract. Observ. Brit. Grasses : 42 (1787)
Agrostis canina var. alba Desv. Observ. Pl. Angers 50. 1818
Agrostis canina var. hybrida (Gaud.) Beldie Fl. Republ. Socialist. Romania 12: 158. 1972
Agrostis canina var. nobilis (De Not.) Arcang. Comp. Fl. Ital. 769 1882
Agrostis canina f. pudica (Döll) Jansen & Wacht. Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 50: 112 1940
Agrostis pallida With. Arr. Brit. Pl. ed. 3 , 2: 128 (1796)
Agrostis setacea var. glaucina (Bastard) Mutel Fl. France 4: 33 1837
Agrostis canina var. hybrida (Gaudin) Gaudin Fl. Helv. 1: 182 (1828)
Agrostis transsilvanica Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 50 (1859)
Agrostis granatensis (Romero García, Blanca & C.Morales) Rivas Mart. Itinera Geobot. 18(2): 481 (2011)
Agrostis canina subsp. allionii K.Richt. Pl. Eur. 1: 45 (1890)
Agrostis canina var. transsylvanica (Schur) Nyman Syll. Fl. Eur. , Suppl.: 70 (1865)
Agrostis canina var. flava Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl. : 44 (1820)
Agrostis canina var. minor Pauquy Statist. Bot. Somme : 442 (1831)
Agrostis canina var. breviaristata Mutel Fl. Franç. Herbor. 4: 32 (1837)
Agrostis canina var. aristata Faye Cat. Pl. Charente-Inf. : 74 (1850)
Agrostis canina var. rupestris Chapm. ex Gatt. Tennessee Fl. : 98 (1887)
Agrostis canina var. aurea Lej. Rev. Fl. Spa : 218 (1825)
Agrostis canina var. violacea Hartm. Handb. Skand. Fl. : 44 (1820)
Agrostis canina var. radicans Rohlena Veda Prír. 18: 116 (1937)
Agrostis canina var. rigida Schur Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 50 (1859)
Agrostis canina var. pumila Peterm. Bot. Excurs. Leipzig : 528 (1846)
Agrostis vulgaris var. pallida (With.) Lej. Rev. Fl. Spa : 15 (1825)
Agrostis canina var. diffusa (Link) Heynh. Nom. Bot. Hort. : 25 (1840)
Agrostis canina var. umbrosa Legrand Fl. Berry : 298 (1887)
Trichodium caninum var. pallidum Opiz Seznam : 99 (1852)
Agrostis canina var. opulentis Portal Agrostis de France : 81 (2009)
Agrostis canina var. pallida Peterm. Fl. Lips. Excurs. : 83 (1838)
Agrostis alba var. aristata Spenn. Fl. Friburg. 1: 94 (1825)
Agrostis canina var. alpina (Leyss.) Ducommun Taschenb. Schweiz. Bot. : 852 (1869)
Agrostis canina var. mutica Gaudin Fl. Helv. 1: 182 (1828)

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Language Common/alternative name
English velvet bentgrass
English velvet bent
English brown bent
Belarusian мятліца сабачая
Bulgarian кучешка полевица
Czech psineček psí
Welsh maeswellt y cŵn
German sumpf-straußgras
German hunds-straußgras
German sumpfstraussgras
German hundstraußgras
Estonian soo-kastehein
Persian علف بوریای مخملی
Finnish luhtarölli
French agrostide des chiens
French agrostide de chiens
Croatian pasja rosulja
Upper Sorbian pochowa wjechelca
Lithuanian Šuninė smilga
Norwegian Bokmål hundekvein
Dutch hondsstruisgras
Dutch kruipend struisgras
Dutch moerasstruisgras
Polish mietlica psia
Russian Полевица собачья
Swedish brunven
Ukrainian Мітлиця собача
Chinese 普通剪股颖
Chinese 普通剪股穎

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  • Asia-temperate
    • China
      • China South-central
      • Tibet
      • Xinjiang
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
    • Middle Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Kirgizstan
      • Tadzhikistan
    • Mongolia
      • Mongolia
    • Western Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Iran
      • Turkey
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Føroyar
      • Great Britain
      • Iceland
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • Corse
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Minnesota
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Maine
      • Massachusetts
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New York
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
      • Vermont
      • West Virginia
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Oregon
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • District Of Columbia
      • Tennessee
    • Subarctic America
      • Greenland

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000843382
Canadensys 7370
USDA Plants AGCA4
Tropicos 25502014
INPN 80590
Flora of Italy 7577
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:385537-1
The Plant List kew-389335
Open Tree Of Life 603346
Observations.org 6321
NCBI Taxonomy 218142
NBN Atlas NHMSYS0000455671
Nature Serve 2.152742
IUCN Red List 167861
IPNI 385537-1
iNaturalist 158132
GBIF 2706465
Freebase /m/0gfd96g
EPPO AGSCA
EOL 1114166
Elurikkus 2591
USDA GRIN 2015
Wikipedia Agrostis_canina

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Habitat Degradation Facilitates the Invasion of Neophytes: A Resurvey Study Based on Permanent Vegetation Plots in Oak Forests in Slovenia (Europe) Kermavnar J, Kutnar L Plants (Basel) 27-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11013422
doi:10.3390/plants13070962
PMID:38611491
Profiling microbial communities in an extremely acidic environment influenced by a cold natural carbon dioxide spring: A study of the Mefite in Ansanto Valley, Southern Italy De Castro O, Avino M, Carraturo F, Di Iorio E, Giovannelli D, Innangi M, Menale B, Mormile N, Troisi J, Guida M Environ Microbiol Rep 26-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10895555
doi:10.1111/1758-2229.13241
PMID:38407001
Extreme environments simplify reassembly of communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Šibanc N, Clark DR, Helgason T, Dumbrell AJ, Maček I mSystems 20-Feb-2024
PMCID:PMC10949450
doi:10.1128/msystems.01331-23
PMID:38376262
Relationship between Species Diversity and Community Stability in Degraded Alpine Meadows during Bare Patch Succession She Y, Li X, Li C, Yang P, Song Z, Zhang J Plants (Basel) 15-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10610337
doi:10.3390/plants12203582
PMID:37896045
The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.) Thompson V, Harkin C, Stewart AJ PLoS One 04-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10602594
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291734
PMID:37792900
Pest categorisation of Hoplolaimus galeatus Bragard C, Baptista P, Chatzivassiliou E, Di Serio F, Gonthier P, Jaques Miret JA, Justesen AF, MacLeod A, Magnusson CS, Milonas P, Navas‐Cortes JA, Parnell S, Potting R, Stefani E, Thulke H, Van der Werf W, Vicent Civera A, Yuen J, Zappalà L, Migheli Q, Vloutoglou I, Maiorano A, Pautasso M, Reignault PL EFSA J 20-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10357347
doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8117
PMID:37485256
Novel Hyperspectral Analysis of Thin-Layer Chromatographic Plates—An Application to Fingerprinting of 70 Polish Grasses Wróbel-Szkolak J, Cwener A, Komsta Ł Molecules 26-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10179984
doi:10.3390/molecules28093745
PMID:37175155
Turfgrass Salinity Stress and Tolerance—A Review Liu H, Todd JL, Luo H Plants (Basel) 17-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9961807
doi:10.3390/plants12040925
PMID:36840273
Initial ecological change in plant and arthropod community composition after wildfires in designated areas of upland peatlands Kelly R, Montgomery WI, Reid N Ecol Evol 11-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9919495
doi:10.1002/ece3.9771
PMID:36789349
The Impact of N.I. Vavilov on the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources in Scandinavia: A Review Solberg SØ, Loskutov IG, Breian L, Diederichsen A Plants (Basel) 28-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9823609
doi:10.3390/plants12010143
PMID:36616272
Animal board invited review: Grassland-based livestock farming and biodiversity Fraser MD, Vallin HE, Roberts BP Animal 01-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9763128
doi:10.1016/j.animal.2022.100671
PMID:36436479
Scrub encroachment promotes biodiversity in temperate European wetlands under eutrophic conditions Brunbjerg AK, Fløjgaard C, Frøslev TG, Andersen DK, Bruun HH, Dalby L, Goldberg I, Lehmann LJ, Moeslund JE, Ejrnæs R Ecol Evol 01-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9627074
doi:10.1002/ece3.9445
PMID:36340817
Soil and Vegetation Development on Coal-Waste Dump in Southern Poland Rahmonov O, Czajka A, Nádudvari Á, Fajer M, Spórna T, Szypuła B Int J Environ Res Public Health 27-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9368154
doi:10.3390/ijerph19159167
PMID:35954523
Progress and Challenges in China Turfgrass Abiotic Stress Resistance Research Jiuxin L, Liebao H Front Plant Sci 14-Jun-2022
PMCID:PMC9237609
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.922175
PMID:35774814
First Report of Culicoides Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Attacking People in Italy, With the Description of Extreme Larval Breeding Sites and Diurnal Activity of Culicoides riethi Romiti F, Fochetti R, Magliano A, Vinciguerra V, Ermenegildi A, De Liberato C J Med Entomol 31-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8924964
doi:10.1093/jme/tjab212
PMID:34971396

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