Distribution Map

Vegetative Morphology
Plants	annual; tufted.
Culms	8-30(40) cm.
Ligules	0.6-3 mm, obtuse.
Blades	1-16 cm long, 1-3 mm wide.
Upper sheaths	inflated.
Reproductive Morphology
Panicles	1-3.2 cm long, 5-11 mm wide.
Glumes	5-6.4 mm, connate in the lower 1/4-1/3, pilose or glabrous in the lower 1/2, keels not winged, ciliate on all veins.
Lemmas	5.6-6.4 mm, connate basally, glabrous or puberulent at the tips.
Awns	6.5-18 mm, geniculate, exceeding the lemmas by 0.8-7.2 mm.
Anthers	about 3 mm.
Caryposes	3.5-4.5 mm.

Chromosome Number(s)

2n = 14

Nativity / Range

Native to southern and western Europe.

Typical Habitat(s)

Wet meadows, roadsides and waste places.

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Additional Notes

It was found growing on ballast in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1880; it has not been collected in North America since that time.

Name/Synonymy Publication Info

Alopecurus rendlei Eig, J. Bot. 75:187 (1937). Phalaris utriculata L., Syst. nat., ed. 10, 2:869 (1759); Alopecurus utriculatus (L.) Pers., Syn. pl. 1:80 (1805), nom. illeg., non Banks & Sol. (1794); Tozzettia utriculata [as "utricalata"] Savi, Ann. Bot. (Usteri) 24:49 (1800). Tozzettia pratensis Savi, Mem. Mat. Fis. Soc. Ital. 8:477 (1799), nom. illeg. LEC: illustration in C. Bauhin & J. Bauhin, Theatri botanici 44 (1658) [Cope in Cafferty, E.C. Jarvis & Turland, Taxon 49:253 (2000)]; EPI: K; [France:] fields along the banks of the Sa?ne [River], at Pontanevaux pres M?con (Sa?ne-et-Loire); May 1879; F. Lacroix [Cope in Cafferty, E.C. Jarvis & Turland, Taxon 49:253 (2000)].

Treatment From

W.J. Crins. Alopecurus in Flora of North America, volume 24. In prep. Oxford University Press.

Vegetative Morphology