list of Latin and synonymous common names of - University of ...

Andropogon provincialis Lam.) (big bluestem grass, Gerard's bluestem, Hall‟s beard grass,
western big bluestem)
Andropogon virginicus L. (bluestem broom-sedge, broomsedge grass, Virginia broom-sedge)
Anthoxanthum monticola (Bigelow) Veldkamp ssp. alpinum (Sw. ex Willd.) Soreng (Hierochloe alpina
(Sw. ex Willd.) Roem. & Schult., Hierochloe odorata auct. non (L.) P. Beauv. p.p., Savastana
alpina (Sw. ex Willd.) Scribn.) (alpine holy grass, Arctic sweet grass, mountain sweet grass,
smelly vanilla grass, sweet grass)
Anthoxanthum odoratum L. (sweet vernal grass)*
Apera interrupta (L.) P. Beauv. (Agrostis interrupta L.) (dense silky-bent, interrupted bent grass,
interrupted grass)*
Apera spica-venti (L.) P. Beauv. (Agrostis spica-venti L.) (loose silky-bent, silky bent grass, windlestraw,
wind-spike grass)*
Arctagrostis latifolia (R. Br.) Greisb. in Ledeb. (Arctic grass, arctagrostis, polar grass)
Arctophila fulva (Trin.) Rupr. ex Anderss. (Colpodium fulvum (Trin.) Griseb.) (Arctic grass, arctophila,
pendant grass)
Aristida basiramea Engelm. ex Vasey (beard grass, forked triple-awned grass, slender three-awn)
Aristida dichotama Michx. (churchmouse three-awn, poverty-grass, triple-awn, needlegrass)
Aristida longespica Poir. (long-spiked triple-awned grass, plains aristida, tufted three-awn)
Aristida purpurea Nutt. var. longiseta (Steud.) Vasey (Aristida longiseta Steud.) (Fendler threeawn, red
three-awn)
Aristida oligantha Michx. (few-flowered aristida, few-flowered three-awn, prairie triple-awned grass)*
Aristida purpurascens Poir. (arrow-feather three-awn, arrow-grass broom-sedge, purple three-awn)
Arrenatherum elatius (L.) Mert. & Koch (fromental, oat grass, tall oat grass)*
Avena fatua L. (avoine, oatgrass, poor oats, wheatgrass, wild oats)*
Avena hookeri Scribn. (Hooker's catgrass)
Avena sativa L. (Avena byzantina K. Koch) (cultivated oats, meadow oats)*
Avena sterilis (animated oats) (ornamental)*
Avenula pubescens (Huds.) Dumort. (Avena pubescens Huds, Helictotrichon pubescens (Huds.) Besser
ex Pilg.) (downy alpine oatgrass, hairy oat grass, oats)*
Beckmannia syzigachne (Steudel) Fern. (Beckmannia eruciformis auct. non (L.) Host) (American slough
grass scissor grass, slough-grass)
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. (side-oats grama, side-oats grass, tall grama grass, tall mesquite
grass)
Bouteloua gracilis (H.B.K.) Lag. (Bouteloua oligostachya (Nutt.) Torr. ex A. Gray, Chondrosum gracile
Willd. ex Kunth, Chondrosum oligostachyum (Nutt.) Torr.) (slender blue grama)
Brachyelytrum erectum (Schreb. Roth ex Spreg.) P. Beauv. (bearded short-husk, husk grass, northern
short-husk)
Briza maxima L. (big quaking grass, quaking grass)
Briza media L. (medium quaking grass, quaking grass, smaller quaking grass)
Bromus aleutensis Trin. ex Griseb. (Bromus sitchensis Trin. var. aleutensis (Trin. ex Griseb.) Hultén)
(Aleutian brome)
Bromus anomalus Rupr. (Bromopsis anomala (Rupr. ex Fourn.) Holub) (nodding brome)
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