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Alopecurus L., or Foxtail Grass, is a genus of the grass family Poaceae with about 25 species.

Foxtail grass occur around northern moderate regions. It may be annual or perennial. It develop around tufts. It keep close at hand flat leaves & blunt ligules (a little flap at a junction of leaf and stem). Their inflorescence occurs as heavy panicle (a branching head while forgoing terminal flower) with One-flowered spikelets. Two or three, particularly The. myosuroides, come considered weeds, others come very cosmetic & are utilized within bouquets of dried flowers.

Species
Alopecurus aequalis - Orange Foxtail, Short Foxtail Alopecurus aequalis aequalis - Short-awn Meadow-foxtail, Shortawn Foxtail Alopecurus aequalis sonomensis - Sonoma Shortawn Foxtail, Sonoma Alopecurus Alopecurus alpinus - Alpine Foxtail Alopecurus alpinus alpinus - Boreal Alopecurus Alopecurus anthoxantoides Alopecurus arundinaceous - Reed Foxtail grass, Creeping Foxtail, Creeping Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus bonariensis Alopecurus brachystachus Alopecurus bulbosus - Bulbous Foxtail Alopecurus carolinianus - Carolina Foxtail grass, Tufted Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus creticus - Cretan Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus geniculatus - Bent Foxtail grass, Marsh Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus geniculatus geniculatus - H2o Foxtail Alopecurus geniculatus microstachys - A stream Foxtail Alopecurus geniculatus patagonicus Alopecurus heliochloides Alopecurus japonicus - Japanese Foxtail Alopecurus lanatus Alopecurus magellanicus Alopecurus magellanicus bracteatus Alopecurus magellanicus magellanicus Alopecurus myosuroides - Slender Meadow Foxtail, Black Grass, Twitch Grass, Black Twitch Alopecurus pratensis - Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus rendlei - Rendle's Meadow Foxtail Alopecurus saccatus - Pacific Foxtail Alopecurus utriculatus

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Alopecurus carolinianus
Line drawings of the inflorences, flowering parts, and fruit.

Alopecurus geniculatus


Alopecurus myosuroides


Alopecurus pratensis







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