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

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

• Basionym: Panicum syzigachne Steud.

Common names:

• American slough grass  (Source: F GPlains) - English
• slough grass  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• slough grass  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• beckmannie à écailles unies  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental: revegetator; revegetator

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia (s.)] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia (s.)]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East]
• CHINA: China (n.)
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan

Europe

• EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part (s.e.)]

Northern America

• SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Yukon] United States [Alaska]
• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Québec, Ontario]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Michigan]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Iowa (n.), Minnesota, Nebraska (n.), North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico (n.)]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [California (n.), Nevada, Utah]


Cultivated

Northern America

• North America


Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=6620. Accessed 1 July 2024.