See other conspecific taxa:

• Trisetum spicatum subsp. australiense (0 accessions)
• Trisetum spicatum subsp. himalaicum (0 accessions)
• Trisetum spicatum subsp. mongolicum (0 accessions)
• Trisetum spicatum subsp. spicatum (0 accessions)
• Trisetum spicatum subsp. tibeticum (0 accessions)
• Trisetum spicatum subsp. virescens (0 accessions)

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• Basionym: Aira spicata L.
• (≡) Aira subspicata L.
• (=) Melica triflora Bigelow
• (=) Trisetum molle Kunth
• (≡) Trisetum subspicatum P. Beauv.
• (=) Trisetum triflorum (Bigelow) Á. Löve & D. Löve

Common names:

• bristle grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• northern oat grass  (Source: F Svalbard) - English
• spike trisetum  (Source: Grass US) - English
• rishiri-kanitsuri  (Source: Grass Japan) - Japanese Rōmaji
• fjällhavre  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• sui san mao  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage;

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan
• CAUCASUS: Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Yakutia-Sakha, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan (e.), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Khabarovsk, Kamchatka, Magadan, Sakhalin]
• CHINA: China [Gansu Sheng, Hebei Sheng, Heilongjiang Sheng, Hubei Sheng, Jilin Sheng, Liaoning Sheng, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Ningxia Huizi Zizhiqu, Qinghai Sheng, Shaanxi Sheng, Shanxi Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, Xizang Zizhiqu, Yunnan Sheng]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Hokkaidô, Honshu] Korea, North, Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India (n.), Nepal, Pakistan (n.)

Australasia

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

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Finland, Iceland, Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Italy
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Spain

Northern America

• SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Northwest Territories, Yukon] Greenland, United States [Alaska]
• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan (n.), New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Minnesota (n.), Wisconsin]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [North Carolina (w.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Durango (alpine), Nuevo León]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Puebla, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Dominican Republic
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Guatemala
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, [La Paz] Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Córdoba, Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego] Chile

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