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Internal ID UUID64402e498e349464354091
Scientific name Aira praecox
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 65 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Agrostis praecox (L.) Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton : 24 (1796)
Aira gmelinii [Honck.] Verz. Gew. Teutschl. : 212 (1782)
Aira pusilla Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. 754. 1866 [Apr-Jun 1866]
Aira subspicata Rainv. Fl. Belg. Foed. : 74 (1781)
Airella praecox (L.) Dumort. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 7: 68 (1868)
Airopsis praecox (L.) Fries Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. 3: 180 (1843)
Aspris praecox (L.) Nash Ill. Fl. N. U.S. , ed. 2, 1: 215 (1913)
Avena loefflingiana Geuns. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 2: 660 (1817)
Avena nana Kunze ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 172 (1840)
Avena praecox P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. : 89 (1812)
Avena pusilla Weber Prim. Fl. Holsat. : 9 (1780)
Caryophyllea praecox Opiz Seznam : 27 (1852)
Fussia praecox Schur Enum. Pl. Transsilv. : 754 (1866)
Salmasia praecox (L.) Bubani Fl. Pyren. 4: 316 (1901)
Trisetum praecox Dumort. Observ. Gramin. Belg. : 122 (1824)
Aira canescens var. praecox (L.) Vill. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné 2: 85 (1787)
Avena caryophyllea unranked praecox (L.) Kuntze Taschen-Fl. Leipzig : 45 (1867)

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Language Common/alternative name
English early hair-grass
English yellow hairgrass
English early hair grass
Czech ovsíček časný
Welsh brigwellt y gwanwyn
German frühe haferschmiele
German früühe haferschmiele
Finnish kääpiölauha
Finnish kääpiölauhio
French canche printanière
French canche précoce
Upper Sorbian chuda šmička
Lithuanian ankstyvoji smilgenė
Latvian agrā aira
Norwegian Bokmål dvergsmyle
Dutch avena praecox
Dutch vroege haver
Polish Śmiałka wczesna
Swedish vårtåtel

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  • Africa
    • Macaronesia
      • Azores
      • Canary Islands
      • Madeira
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
  • Antarctica
    • Subantarctic Islands
      • Crozet Islands
      • Falkland Islands
      • Kerguelen
  • Australasia
    • Australia
      • New South Wales
      • South Australia
      • Tasmania
      • Victoria
      • Western Australia
    • New Zealand
      • Chatham Islands
      • New Zealand North
      • New Zealand South
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Krym
    • Middle Europe
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Føroyar
      • Great Britain
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Italy
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Nova Scotia
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Connecticut
      • Massachusetts
      • New Jersey
      • New York
      • Pennsylvania
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Oregon
      • Washington
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Delaware
      • Maryland
      • North Carolina
      • Virginia
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • California
    • Western Canada
      • British Columbia
  • Southern America
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina South
      • Chile South
      • Juan Fernández Islands
      • Uruguay

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000845169
Canadensys 7387
USDA Plants AIPR
Tropicos 25500525
INPN 80911
Flora of Italy 7617
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:386818-1
The Plant List kew-391043
Open Tree Of Life 522424
NCBI Taxonomy 281066
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000002625
Nature Serve 2.146569
IPNI 386818-1
iNaturalist 61058
GBIF 5289582
Freebase /m/047n108
EPPO AIRPR
EOL 1114138
Elurikkus 2601
Calflora (Californian flora) 164
USDA GRIN 2093
Wikipedia Aira_praecox

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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
Checklist of the grasses of India Kellogg EA, Abbott JR, Bawa KS, Gandhi KN, Kailash BR, Ganeshaiah KN, Shrestha UB, Raven P PhytoKeys 16-Oct-2020
PMCID:PMC10311516
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.163.38393
PMID:37397271
Can plant traits predict seed dispersal probability via red deer guts, fur, and hooves? Petersen TK, Bruun HH Ecol Evol 13-Aug-2019
PMCID:PMC6745656
doi:10.1002/ece3.5512
PMID:31534692
Plant DNA metabarcoding of lake sediments: How does it represent the contemporary vegetation Alsos IG, Lammers Y, Yoccoz NG, Jørgensen T, Sjögren P, Gielly L, Edwards ME PLoS One 17-Apr-2018
PMCID:PMC5903670
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195403
PMID:29664954
Long-term effect of sheep and goat grazing on plant diversity in a semi-natural dry grassland habitat Benthien O, Braun M, Riemann JC, Stolter C Heliyon 07-Mar-2018
PMCID:PMC5857719
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2018.e00556
PMID:29560467
Internal and External Dispersal of Plants by Animals: An Aquatic Perspective on Alien Interference van Leeuwen CH Front Plant Sci 13-Feb-2018
PMCID:PMC5816930
doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00153
PMID:29487609
Microsites Matter: Improving the Success of Rare Species Reintroductions Dunwiddie PW, Martin RA PLoS One 01-Mar-2016
PMCID:PMC4773064
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150417
PMID:26930510
Protein accumulation in leaves and roots associated with improved drought tolerance in creeping bentgrass expressing an ipt gene for cytokinin synthesis Merewitz EB, Gianfagna T, Huang B J Exp Bot 09-Aug-2011
PMCID:PMC3223035
doi:10.1093/jxb/err166
PMID:21831843
The effect of environmental change on vascular plant and cryptogam communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic Bokhorst S, Huiskes A, Convey P, Aerts R BMC Ecol 19-Dec-2007
PMCID:PMC2234391
doi:10.1186/1472-6785-7-15
PMID:18093288
The introgression of a functional nuclear gene from Poa to Festuca ovina Ghatnekar L, Jaarola M, Bengtsson BO Proc Biol Sci 06-Dec-2005
PMCID:PMC1560210
doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3355
PMID:16615204
Life history traits in selfing versus outcrossing annuals: exploring the 'time-limitation' hypothesis for the fitness benefit of self-pollination Snell R, Aarssen LW BMC Ecol 11-Feb-2005
PMCID:PMC553978
doi:10.1186/1472-6785-5-2
PMID:15707481

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