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Alopecurus pratensis (Poaceae)

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Presented here is summary information about the species Alopecurus pratensis from the Global Compendium of Weeds, and citations of references to this species as a weed. Definitions of terms are available in the GCW introduction View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format. For further information--or to report corrections or concerns--contact webmaster@hear.org.

Synonyms/other Latin names: [ see GRIN ]

Status(es) (compiled for below "Data sources"): agricultural weed, casual alien, cultivation escape, environmental weed, naturalised, weed [for definitions, see the GCW introduction View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format.]

Origin (native to where): "Eur, Asia (nw Turkey to w Eastern Siberia)", Eurasia, "Europe, N Asia"


Data sources:

Important Weed Species in Crops and Countries. Data stored from 59 developing countries and regularly updated. (Information gathered in the FAO IPM workshop held in Kathmandou in April 1998) Information kindly provided by Ms D. Jagat Ranjit. FAO Weed Management, Ricardo Labrada. (agricultural weed)

Alien Plants in Korea. National Institute of Environmental Research. NIER : nier.go.kr Director. Deok-Gil Rhee. July 2004. (naturalised)

Alien Species. On March 10, the Japanese Cabinet submitted the bill dealing with invasive alien species to the Diet. The Diet passed the bill without amendments and the Invasive Alien Species Act was promulgated as of June 2, 2004. List of alien species recognized to be established in Japan or found in the Japanese wild (as of October 27, 2004) [PDF] (naturalised)

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Weeds and weed management in tomatos, Details from single countries. - France (by Robert Giovinazzo) (agricultural weed)

Weeds and weed management in tomatos, Details from single countries. - Italy (by Francesco Tei) (agricultural weed)

Chinese with Latin name, English name and Chinese name index. (weed)

The Research Institute for Bioresources. Okayama University. Laboratory of Wild Plant Science. "Weeds of Japan". (weed)

Wang, Z., Xin M., Ma D., Song, S., Wang, X., Yan, C., Zhang, D., Feng, W., Ma, E. and Chen, J. (1990). Farmland Weeds in China. A collection of coloured illustrative plates. Agricultural Publishing House. China. (agricultural weed)

Zhang, Z.P. & Hirota, S. (Eds) (2000). Chinese Colored Weed Illustrated Book. Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R.China, and the Japan Association For Advancement of Phyto-Regulators. (weed)

l Atlas of World Weeds. John Wiley and Sons NewYork, USA

HortGuard and GrainGuard Initial Threat List Compilations

Häfliger, E. and Scholz, H. (1981). Grassweeds 2. Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.

Introduced (Naturalised) Species to the United States [USDA, NRCS 1999. The PLANTS database. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. ]

Introduced (Naturalised) species of Tasmania (1999) Data Supplied by Resource Management and Conservation Department of Primary Industry, Water & Environment. Hobart

John Hosking, NSW Department of Agriculture, Weed Database 30 April 2003

Kaul, M.K. (1986). Weed Flora of Kashmir Valley. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany, Additional Series I. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India.

Keighery, G. and Longman, V. (2004). The naturalized vascular plants of Western Australia 1: Checklist, environmental weeds and Distribution in IBRA Regions. Plant Protection Quarterly Vol.19 (1). pp:12-32.

Landcare Research New Zealand (2001) Plant Names Database.

Marticorena, C. & Quezada, A. (1985). Catálogo de la flora vascular de Chile. GAYANA, BOTANICA Vol 42 No. 1-2 Universidad de Concepcion-Chile. (naturalised)

Marticorena, C. (2000?) Naturalised Plants of Chile. University of Santiago Herbarium.

Mills, E.L., Leach, J.H., Carlton, J.T., and Seacor, C.L. 1993. Exotic species in the Great Lakes: a historyof biotic crises and anthropogenic introductions. J. Great Lakes Res. 19(1):1-54. On GREAT LAKES AQUATIC NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES LIST compiled by the NOAA National Center for Research on Aquatic Invasive Species (NCRAIS) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory by Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Pat Enwright (2003) Adventive species of the Wellington Conservancy ecological district. Project initiated by John Sawyer of D.O.C and further refined and updated by Colin Ogle of Wanganui before Ewen Cameron and Mei Nee Lee of the Auckland Museum herbarium very kindly provided lists of adventive species by ecological district for the Wellington Conservancy from the AK database. I must also thank Ewen Cameron Williams, G.H. (1982). Elseviers's Dictionary of Weeds of Western Europe. Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company Amsterdam, Holland. (weed)



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