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.
| Apera spica-venti | |
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| Apera spica-venti[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Apera |
| Species: | A. spica-venti
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| Binomial name | |
| Apera spica-venti (L.) P.Beauv.
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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.
This species of grass grows to about 40–100 centimetres (16–39 in) high.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.