Hierochloe
Sweetgrass | |
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Hierochloe odorata | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae
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(unranked): | Angiosperms
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(unranked): | Monocots
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Genus: | Hierochloe |
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Hierochloe is a genus of plants in the grass family known generally as sweetgrass.[3] These are perennial rhizomatous grasses found primarily in temperate and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America, although some species extend southwards into Australia and Latin America.[2][4]
These erect green grasses are known for their sweet scent. They bear panicle inflorescences with rounded grass grain fruits.[5]
Some authors advocate merging the two genera Hierochloe and Anthoxanthum, though others disagree.[6][7][8]
- Species[2]
- - Russia, Scandinavia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, Canada, Greenland, Alaska, northern United States (ME NH VT NY MN)
- Hierochloe australis - northern + central Europe
- Hierochloe brunonis - New Zealand (South I + Antipodean Is)
- - New Zealand (South I + North I)
- - Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica
- - New Zealand South I)
- - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh
- - Tasmania
- - New Zealand (South I + North I, Chatham Is, Antipodean Is)
- - China incl Tibet; Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Asiatic Russia, Kazakhstan
- - Chile, Argentina
- - Primorye
- - Chile, Argentina
- - Assam
- - Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, Gansu, Sichuan
- - Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela
- - New Zealand (South I + North I)
- Hierochloe occidentalis - Washington, Oregon, California
- Hierochloe odorata - Eurasia, North America
- - Russia, Canada, Alaska
- - Japan
- - Gansu, Sichuan
- - Chile, Argentina
- - Peru
- - Australia
- - New Zealand (South I + North I)
- - Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South America, Falkland Is
- - Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Rep, Hungary, Austria
- - southern Chile
- - Australia
- - Tibet
- - Chile, Argentina
- - Pakistan
- - Ural Mountains of Russia
- formerly included[2]
numerous species now regarded as better suited to other genera: Anthoxanthum Centotheca Holcus
References[]
- ^ International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants see § 60.6
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Brown, Robert. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 208-209 in Latin
- ^ USDA Plants Profile
- ^ Jepson Manual Treatment
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 336 黄花茅属 huang hua mao shu Anthoxanthum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 28. 1753
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Anthoxanthum
- ^ Hope, Tom, & Gray, Alan, Grasses of the British Isles: BSBI Handbook No. 13, Botanical Society of the British Isles, 2009, p 312. ISBN 978-0-901158-42-0.
Categories:
- Pooideae
- Poaceae genera