Glyceria fluitans

species of plant

Species

Least Concern

SPECIES

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLiliopsida
OrderPoales
FamilyPoaceae

Native toAlbania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia

Observations recorded447,854

Chile Central

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 3,962
With media: 2,771
Family: Poaceae
Collections: UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, IBUNAM, INECOL, ENCB-IPN, CP, UAAAN
Recorded in: Canada, Finland, Mexico

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Glyceria
Image: Glyceria.fluitans.2.jpg

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taxon rank: species
taxon name: Glyceria fluitans
Commons category: Glyceria fluitans
IUCN conservation status: Least Concern
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=17676
Commons gallery: Glyceria fluitans
taxon common name: ojasorsimo
short name: G. fluitans

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Encyclopedic overview

Glyceria fluitans (syns Festuca fluitans, Poa fluitans, Panicularia fluitans), known as floating sweet-grass and water mannagrass, is a species of perennial grass in the genus Glyceria native to Europe, the Mediterranean region and Western Asia and occurring in wet areas such as ditches, riverbanks and ponds.

It has a creeping rootstock, a thick stem which rises to one metre. The leaves are long, narrow and pale green, rough on both sides, often folded at the keel which lies on the surface of the water.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glyceria fluitans” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.