Apera spica-venti

Apera spica-venti
Apera spica-venti [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Genus:	Apera
Species:	A. spica-venti
Binomial name
Apera spica-venti (L.) P.Beauv.

Apera spica-venti, the loose silky-bent ^[2] or common windgrass, is an annual or biannual plant in the genus Apera . It belongs to the family Poaceae. It is a Diploid species meaning that it contains two sets of chromosomes. ^[3]

This species is native to Eurasia and North Africa from the Canary Islands to Denmark to Yakutia. It occurs in pastures with sandy soil. It has naturalized in the United States, Canada, and Russian Far East.

Description

This species of grass grows to about 40–100 centimetres (16–39 in) high.

References

1. illustration from Apera spica-venti from http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=QK495F19H671801V3&identifier=0165 Title: Icones et descriptiones Graminum austriacorum Author(s): Host, Nikolaus Thomas Schmidt, A Ibmayer, J Publisher: Vindobonae : A. Schmidt, 1801-1809. Description: 4 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 48 cm.
2. BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
3. Lemas, John; Ņečajeva, Jevgenija; Montgomery, Jacob; Marques-Hill, Sofia; Llaca, Victor; Fengler, Kevin; Ulber, Lena; Rissel, Dagmar; Soukup, Josef; Hamouzová, Kateřina; Abdollahi, Fatemeh; Nelson, David; Gaines, Todd A; Patterson, Eric (2025-05-22). "The Genome of Apera spica-venti, a major grass weed". Genome Biology and Evolution: evaf096. doi:10.1093/gbe/evaf096. ISSN   1759-6653. PMC   12127512 .