Scientific name Crypsis Rank Genus | Higher classification Grasses | |
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Lower classifications Crypsis schoenoides, Crypsis alopecuroides, Crypsis vaginiflora | ||
Crypsis is an African and Eurasian plant in the grass samily sometimes referred to as pricklegrass.
These are annual grasses with short leaves. A few species are invasive weeds outside their native ranges.
- Crypsis aculeata - from Portugal and Mauritania to Korea
- Crypsis acuminata - from Turkey to Kazakhstan
- Crypsis alopecuroides - from Portugal and Morocco to Korea; introduced in western North America (British Columbia + western USA)
- Crypsis factorovskyi - Caucasus, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan
- Crypsis hadjikyriakou - Cyprus
- Crypsis minuartioides - Sharon Plain in northwestern Israel
- Crypsis schoenoides - from Britain to China + Pakistan + Mozambique; introduced in North America (western USA, Great Lakes region, Baja California)
- Crypsis turkestanica - Central Asia, Caucasus, western Siberia, southern European Russia
- Crypsis vaginiflora - Africa; Middle East, India, Pakistan; introduced in North America (Idaho, Oregon, California, Baja California)
see Muhlenbergia Munroa Phleum Rhizocephalus Sporobolus Urochondra
References
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