Phleum: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Phleum
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Phleum
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Phleum
Phleum (common name timothy) is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family. The genus is native to Europe, Asia and north Africa, with one species (P. alpinum) also in North and South America.
They are tufted grasses growing to 20–150 cm tall, with cylindrical, spike-like panicles containing many densely packed spikelets.
- Species
- Formerly included
Numerous species now considered better suited to other genera: Aegilops, Alopecurus, Beckmannia, Crypsis, Cynodon, Cynosurus, Digitaria, Elytrophorus, Ischaemum, Mnesithea, Muhlenbergia, Pennisetum, Pentameris, Phalaris, Polypogon, Polytrias, Sesleria, Tribolium
...Phleum in languages:
- Czech
- bojínek
- Dutch
- Doddegras
- English
- Timothies
- English
- Timothy or Cat's Tail
- Finnish
- tähkiöt
- French
- Fléoles
- German
- Lieschgräser
- Korean
- 산조아재비속
- Lithuanian
- Motiejukas
- Polish
- Tymotka
- Russian
- Тимофеевка
- Swedish
- timotejer
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