See other conspecific taxa:

• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. alpina (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. beringensis (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. borealis (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. brevifolia (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. cespitosa (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. holciformis (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. obensis (0 accessions)
• Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. orientalis (0 accessions)

Common names:

• tufted hair grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• tussock grass  (Source: Dict Gard) - English
• aire gazonnante  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• canche flexueuse  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• canche gazonnante  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Rasenschmiele  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• aira cespitosa  (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
• grama del monte  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• tuvtåtel  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• fa cao  (Source: F China) - Transcribed Chinese
• jomsaepul  (Source: F Korea) - Transcribed Korean

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental: lawn/turf; revegetator; revegetator

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Morocco
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Democratic Republic of the Congo (e.?), Equatorial Guinea [Bioko]

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan (s.e.), Kyrgyzstan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East]
• CHINA: China (n. & w.)
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Hokkaidô, Honshu, Kyushu]

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, [Arunachal Pradesh] Pakistan (n.)

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [Tasmania, New South Wales (s.e.), Victoria (e.)]
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Saratov] Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain

Northern America

• SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Northwest Territories, Yukon] Greenland, United States [Alaska]
• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (w.), Wisconsin]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [North Carolina (w.), Virginia (w.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Chubut, Mendoza, Neuquén, Río Negro, San Juan, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego] Chile


Cultivated (also cult.)

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