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

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

• (=) Festuca megalura Nutt.
• Basionym: Festuca myuros L.
• (=) Vulpia megalura (Nutt.) Rydb.
• (=) Vulpia myuros var. hirsuta Hack.
• (-) Vulpia myuros var. myuros (L.) C. C. Gmel.

Common names:

• annual fescue  (Source: Cover Crop Database) - English
• foxtail fescue  (Source: Cover Crop Database) - English
• rat-tail fescue  (Source: F Iraq) - English
• silver grass  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• rattail vulpia  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• vulpie queue-de-rat  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• festuca-rabo-de-rato  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• vulpia-rabo-de-rato  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• råttsvingel  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• shu mao  (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; revegetator; soil improver
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Madeira Islands] Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt (n.), Libya (n.), Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Egypt, [Sinai] Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kyrgyzstan (w.), Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India, Pakistan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Ireland, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Cultivated (also cult.)

Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Azores]
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Lesotho, South Africa [KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape]

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Taiwan

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Finland, Norway, Sweden
• EASTERN EUROPE: Lithuania

Northern America

• SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada [Yukon]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [British Columbia]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [West Virginia]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Oregon, Washington]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California]
• Mexico

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii, United States Minor Outlying Islands]

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Hispaniola, Jamaica
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, Guatemala
• BRAZIL: Brazil [Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile, Uruguay

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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=41939. Accessed 4 October 2024.