Hierochloe
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[ Hierobotana ] [ Hierochloe ] [ Hieronima ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Hierochloe

sweet grass
sweetgrass

Hierarchical position of the Genus Hierochloe

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967.
common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
  
   SuperOrdo  Juncanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 510. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Poales Small
pub. Fl. S.E. U.S.: 48. 1903.
  
   Familia  Poaceae (R. Br.) Barnh.
pub. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 7. 15 Jan 1895, nom. cons.
common name: Gramineae
  
   Familia  Gramineae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 28. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Hierochloe R.Br.
common name: sweetgrass
  

Named members of the Genus Hierochloe

1
   Species  alpina (Sw. ex Willd.) Roemer & J.A. Schultes
 
2
   Subspecies  alpina
common name: alpine sweetgrass
3
   Subspecies  orthantha (Sorensen) G. Weim.
common name: alpine sweetgrass
4
   Varietas  orthantha (Sorensen) Hult�n
syn. Hierochloe alpina ssp. orthantha
5
   Species  fragrans (Willd.) Roemer & J.A. Schultes
syn. Hierochloe odorata
6
   Species  hirta (Schrank) Borb�s
 
7
   Subspecies  arctica (J. Presl) G. Weim.
common name: northern sweetgrass
8
   Species  macrophylla Thurb. ex Boland.
syn. Hierochloe occidentalis
9
   Species  monticola (Bigelow) A.& D. L�ve, non Mez
syn. Hierochloe alpina ssp. orthantha
10
   Species  nashii (Bickn.) Kaczmarek
syn. Hierochloe odorata
11
   Species  occidentalis Buckl.
common name: California sweetgrass
12
   Species  odorata (L.) Beauv.
common name: sweet grass
  
 
13
   Subspecies  arctica (J. Presl) Tzvelev
syn. Hierochloe hirta ssp. arctica
14
   Varietas  fragrans (Willd.) Richter
syn. Hierochloe odorata
15
   Species  orthantha Sorensen
syn. Hierochloe alpina ssp. orthantha
16
   Species  pauciflora R. Br.
common name: arctic sweetgrass

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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