Common names of a selected list of plantsAnderson, Kling L.
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Common names of a selected list of plants
Anderson, Kling L.
Plant names, Popular -- Kansas
einkorn
_turgidum_ L. poulard w.
_Uniola_ L. uniola
_latifolia_ Michx. broadleaf u.
_sessiliflora_ Poir. longleaf u.
_Zea mays_ L. corn
_Zizania aquatica_ L. wildrice
_Zizaniopsis miliacea_ (Michx.)
Doell & Aschers. southern wildrice
_Zoysia_ Willd. zoysia
_japonica_ Steud. Japanese lawngrass
_matrella_ (L.) Merr.[37] manillagrass
_tenuifolia_ Willd. ex. Trin. mascarenegrass
FOOTNOTES:
[9] _Agropyron cristatum_ and _A. desertorum_ are part of
a complex that includes several other species.
[10] Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[11] A complex.
[12] _Bothriochloa intermedia_ (R. Brown) A. Camus (a
complex) of Harlan & Celerier, Okla. Tech. Bul. T-72.
[13] _Bothriochloa ischaemum_ (L.) Keng. var. _ischaemum_
of Harlan & Celerier, Okla. Tech. Bul. T-72.
[14] Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[15] A complex, including _B. californicus_ Nutt. ex
Buckl., _B. marginatus_ Nees, _B. maritimus_ (Piper)
Hitchc., and _B. polyanthus_ Scribn.
[16] Includes _B. richardsoni_ Link.
[17] In written material in which _B. inermis_ is the only
_Bromus_ species discussed, its common name may be
shortened to brome.
[18] Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[19] Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[20] Spp. with stiff spreading spikes are called
windmillgrass.
[21] The name “fingergrass” applied to erect spp.
[22] Not listed in Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[23] The name _H. nodosum_ has generally been misapplied to
_H. brachyantherum_ in this country.
[24] The name “oniongrass” applied to those spp. with
bulblike stem bases.
[25] _M. foliosa_ is a name formerly applied to _M.
mexicana_. _M. mexicana_ was then misapplied to the
recently recognized _M. frondosa_ (Poir.) Fernald,
which it resembles.
[26] Considered to be a form of _M. richardsonis_ (Trin.)
Rydb., see 1951 ed. of Hitchcock’s manual, p. 382.
[27] Listed as _P. fluitans_ (Ell.) Kunth on p. 602 of
Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[28] Listed as _P. typhoides_, Stapf and Hubbard, page 74
USDA Handbook 170, “Grass varieties in the U.S.,”
June, 1965.
[29] Older name, now listed as _P. setaceum_, p. 729 in
Hitchcock’s 1951 manual.
[30] Included in _Tricholaena_ in some manuals.
[31] In some areas certain _Setaria_ spp. have been called
foxtail, but to avoid confusion, that common name
should be reserved to the genus _Alopecurus_.
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