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. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass and wallaby grass. Australian species have since been reclassified into the genus '' Rytidosperma''. ; Species * ''

Danthonia alpina ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

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* '' Danthonia annableae'' P.M.Peterson & Rúgolo –

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Danthonia araucana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

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* '' Danthonia boliviensis'' Renvoize –

* '' Danthonia × breviaristata'' (Beck) Vierh – France, Italy, Austria, Czech Rep,

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Danthonia breviseta ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

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Danthonia californica ''Danthonia californica'' is a species of grass known by the common name California oatgrass. This plant is native to two separate regions of the Americas, western North America from California to Saskatchewan, and Chile. Description ''Danthonia ...

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* '' Danthonia cernua'' Döll –

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Danthonia chaseana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia chiapasensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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* '' Danthonia chilensis'' É.Desv. –

incl Juan Fernández Is * '' Danthonia cirrata'' Hack. & Arechav. –

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Danthonia compressa ''Danthonia compressa'' is a species of grass known by the common names mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, and slender oatgrass. Distribution This bunchgrass is native to eastern North America, where it can be found in eastern Canada and the ...

'' Austin – mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, slender oatgrass – eastern North America from

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Danthonia decumbens ''Danthonia decumbens'' (formerly ''Sieglingia decumbens'') is a species of grass commonly known as the heath grass, heath-grass, or staggers grass It is a tussock grass native to Europe and adjacent parts of Asia and North Africa. It may also b ...

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Danthonia domingensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgras ...

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Danthonia holm-nielsenii ''Danthonia holm-nielsenii'' is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is found only in Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the ...

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Danthonia intermedia ''Danthonia intermedia'' is a species of Poaceae, grass known by the common names timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass, and mountain wild-oat grass. This clumping erect perennial grass is native to North America, where it is widespread across m ...

'' Vasey – timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass – western United States, Canada,

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* '' Danthonia malacantha'' (Steud.) Pilg. –

incl Juan Fernández Is * '' Danthonia melanathera'' (Hack.) Bernardello –

* '' Danthonia montevidensis'' Hack. & Arechav. –

* '' Danthonia parryi'' Scribn. –

SAS CO MT WY NM * '' Danthonia rhizomata'' Swallen –

* '' Danthonia rugoloana'' Sulekic –

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* '' Danthonia secundiflora'' J.Presl – from Mexico to

* '' Danthonia sericea'' Nutt. – eastern + central United States * '' Danthonia spicata'' (L.) Roem. & Schult. – poverty oatgrass, poverty grass – from

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Danthonia unispicata ''Danthonia unispicata'' is a species of Poaceae, grass known by the common name onespike oatgrass, or onespike danthonia. It is sometimes treated as a variety of ''Danthonia californica'', to which it is similar. It is native to western North A ...

'' (Thurb.) Munro ex Macoun – onespike oatgrass –

BC SAS WA ID MT OR WY SD UT NV CA ; Formerly included A number of species which were formerly classified under ''Danthonia'' are now included in ''

Amphibromus ''Amphibromus'' is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. Most are known as swamp wallaby grass.Thieret, J. W''Amphibromus''. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.Astrebla ''Astrebla'' is a small genus of xerophytic (adapted to survive in an environment with little liquid water) grasses found only in Australia. They are the dominant grass across much of the continent. They are commonly known as Mitchell grass aft ...

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Joycea ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile, Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii, Easter Isla ...

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Karroochloa ''Tribolium '' is a genus of African plants in the Poaceae, grass family, native to South Africa and neighboring countries. ; Species References

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Merxmuellera ''Merxmuellera'' is a genus of African grasses named for Hermann Merxmueller, a 20th century German botanist and taxonomist who was an expert on African flora. Species ''Merxmuellera'' contains the following species: * '' Merxmuellera ambalavao ...

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Schismus ''Schismus'' is a genus of African and Eurasian plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Two species are naturalized in North America, where they are known as Mediterranean grass. ; Species * ''Schismus arabicus'' - Greece, North Africa, East Africa ...

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