''Parapholis incurva'' is a species of

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

native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa, and widely

naturalised Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth. The definition of naturalization by the International Organization for Migration of the ...

elsewhere. Common names include coast barbgrass, curved sea hard grass, curved hard-grass, sicklegrass, curved sicklegrass and curved parapholis.

Description

It is a tufted annual

bunchgrass Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennia ...

up to 30 centimetres high, with green flowers.

Taxonomy

It was first published as ''Aegilops incurva'' by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

, and transferred into ''

Parapholis ''Parapholis'' is a genus of Eurasian and North African flowering plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Species *''Parapholis filiformis'' (Roth) C.E.Hubb. - from Madeira to Turkey *''Parapholis gracilis'' Bor - Caucasus, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, and ...

'' by

Charles Edward Hubbard Charles Edward Hubbard (23 May 19008 May 1980) was a British botanist, specialising in agrostology – the study of grasses. He was considered "the world authority on the classification and recognition of grasses" in his time. He is indicated ...

in 1946.

Distribution and habitat

It is widespread in the old world, occurring in northern Africa, Europe, and Asia. It has widely naturalised elsewhere.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment

USDA Plants Profile

Grass Manual Treatment

Photo gallery
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