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Phleum
Phleum pratense
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Monocots
Clade:
Commelinids
Order:
Poales
Family:
Poaceae
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Supertribe:
Poodae
Tribe:
Poeae
Subtribe:
Phleinae Dumort.
Genus:
Phleum L.
Type species
Phleum pratense
L.[1][2]
Synonyms[3]
Stelephuros Adans.
Plantinia Bubani
Achnodonton P.Beauv.
Chilochloa P.Beauv.
Achnodon Link
Maillea Parl.
Pseudophleum Dogan
Phleum (common name timothy) is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the grass family.[4] The genus is native to Europe, Asia and north Africa, with one species (P. alpinum) also in North and South America.[5]
They are tufted grasses growing to 20–150 cm tall, with cylindrical, spike-like panicles containing many densely packed spikelets.[6]
Species[3][7][8][9]
Phleum alpinum – subarctic and mountainous areas in Eurasia, the Americas, South Georgia, etc.
Phleum arenarium – western + southern Europe; Mediterranean
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geniculatus) and black grass (A. myosuroides). It is often confused with timothy (Phleum pratense). Timothy flowers later, from June until August. Its spikelets...
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of the ovipositor Females can be recognized by the ovipositor Nymph on Phleum pratense Anatomy of the head Mandibles Hearing bubble on the forelimb A...
species is attributed to Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, who referred to it as Phleum autumnale in the second edition of his book, Flora Carniolica, which was...
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Reliquiae Mailleanae" (1869). In 1842 the grass genus Maillea (synonym Phleum, family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Filippo Parlatore. The standard...
most-commonly eaten grass genera are Agrostis, Avena, Calamagrostis, Festuca, Phleum, Poa, Sesleria, and Trisetum. In the spring, animals of both sexes spend...
20–23 mm. Adults are mainly on wing from May to October. The larvae feed on Phleum pratense. The larvae are pink with a dark dorsal stripe and a chestnut head...
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