''Beckmannia eruciformis'', the European slough-grass or slough grass, is an annual or short lived perennial in the grass family,

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

, found in shallow marshes or

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s, and used for animal fodder and forage.

Distribution

This species is native in

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through

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, and

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. It is one of only two species in the genus ''

Beckmannia ''Beckmannia'' is a small genus of grasses containing two species known generally as sloughgrass. '' Beckmannia eruciformis'' is a Eurasian perennial, and '' Beckmannia syzigachne'' is an annual grass found in North America and Asia. The genus w ...

''; the other being ''

Beckmannia syzigachne ''Beckmannia syzigachne'', the American sloughgrass, or slough grass, is an annual or short-lived perennial bunchgrass in the grass family, Poaceae, found in shallow marshes or sloughs. ''Beckmannia syzigachne'' is widespread across much of Eur ...

''.

References

* Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). * Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. * Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. * Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). * Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. *

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1995. ''New Flora of the British Isles''. * Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. * Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. Pooideae Bunchgrasses of Europe Bunchgrasses of Asia Flora of Western Asia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Grasses of Lebanon {{Pooideae-stub