Hierochloe
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| Hierochloe | |
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| sweet grass | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Hierochloe R. Br. |
| Species | |
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~30 - See text. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Anthoxanthum[1] |
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Hierochloe is a genus of grasses known generally as sweetgrass. These are perennial rhizomatous grasses found in temperate regions in the Northern Hemisphere. These erect green grasses are known for their sweet scent. They bear panicle inflorescences with rounded grass grain fruits.
Hierochloe is also regarded as a section of the genus Anthoxanthum.[1]
Selected species:
- Hierochloe alpina - alpine sweetgrass
- Hierochloe fraseri
- Hierochloe hirta - northern sweetgrass
- Hierochloe magellanica
- Hierochloe occidentalis - California sweetgrass
- Hierochloe odorata - sweetgrass, holy grass, vanilla grass
- Hierochloe pauciflora - arctic sweetgrass
- Hierochloe rariflora
- Hierochloe recurvata
- Hierochloe redolens
- Hierochloe sibirica
- Hierochloe stepporum
- Hierochloe submutica
[edit] References
- ^ a b Hope, Tom, & Gray, Alan, Grasses of the British Isles: BSBI Handbook No. 13, Botanical Society of the British Isles, 2009, p 312. ISBN 978-0-901158-420.
