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n. - Annual or perennial grasses including decorative and meadow species as well as notorious agricultural weeds.

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  • Agrimonia, Stemodia grandiflora, a species of Alopecurus in inundated rice fields, Fragaria, in the wood, Arenaria, Gymnostomum on the terraces.
  • Other characteristic species include: Alopecurus ventricosus, Hordeum brevisubulatum, Agropyrum repens, Puccinelia distans, Saussurea amora, and Aster tripolium.
  • The bottom of the valleys and plains are dominated by cebada silvestre (Hordeum comosum), with Alopecurus antarticus, Phleum conmutatus, Poa pratensis, Agrosti sp ..
  • Another grass belonging to this genus, grows very generally in the South; it is the Floating Foxtail, Alopecurus geniculatus.
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