Lycurus
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| Lycurus sp. | |
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| Genus: | Lycurus |
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| Lycurus phleoides | |
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Lycurus is a small genus of New World plants in the grass family, native to North and South America.[3][4]
These grasses are known commonly as wolfstails.[5][6][7]
- Lycurus phalaroides Kunth - Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina
- Lycurus phleoides Kunth - southwestern + south-central USA (AZ UT CO NM TX OK),[9] northern + central Mexico, Bolivia, Peru
- Lycurus setosus (Nutt.) C.Reeder - southwestern + south-central USA (CA NV AZ UT CO NM TX OK KS), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí), northern Argentina
References
- ^ lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S.D.A. Bull. 772: 139 (1920)
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 141-142
- ^ Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plate XLV (45) full-page line drawing of Lycurus phleoides
- ^ Jepson Manual Treatment
- ^ USDA Plants Profile
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ Reeder, Charlotte G. 1985. The genus Lycurus (Gramineae) in North America. Phytologia 57(4): 283–291
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Lycurus phleoides
