EPPO Global Database

Deschampsia cespitosa(DECCA)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-02-11

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: DECCA
  • Preferred name: Deschampsia cespitosa
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois

Notes

Practically throughout Europe, Black Sea, Caucasus, Morocco, Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia, China, Himalayas, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Africa, Canada (including Greenland), USA (including Alaska), Mexico, Australia (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania), New Zealand. Introduced in South Africa, Australia (South), South America (southern cone). The nominate subspecies has the wide distribution of the species 


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Aira cespitosa Linnaeus
Deschampsia alpina (Linnaeus) Römer & Schultes
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. alpina (Linnaeus) J. Hooker
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. cespitosa (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois
Deschampsia cespitosa subsp. gaudinii Richter
Deschampsia gallaecica (Cervi & Romo) García Suárez, Fern.-Carv
Deschampsia hispanica subsp. gallaecica Cervi & Romo
Deschampsia media subsp. hispanica (Viviani) Bolòs, Masalles & Vigo

Common names
Name Language
alpine hairgrass English
hassock English
tufted hairgrass English
turfy hairgrass English
tussockgrass English
alpine Horstrasenschmiele German
gewöhnliche Horstrasenschmiele German
horstbildende Schmiele German
Horstrasenschmiele German
Rasenschmiele German
Sumpfschmiele German
aira gazonnante French
aïra gazonnante French
canche cespiteuse French
canche céspiteuse French
canche des champs French
canche en gazon French
canche en touffe French
canche gazonnante French
deschampsie céspiteuse French
foin élevé French
herbe sûre French
aira caespitosa Spanish
grama de monte Spanish
aira cespitosa Italian
deschampsia cespugliosa Italian
ghingola tortuosa Italian
migliarino maggiore Italian
nebbia Italian
ruwe smele Dutch
fjälltåtel Swedish
tuvtåtel Swedish
луговик дернистый Russian
щучка дернистая Russian
mose-bunke Danish
fjellbunke Norwegian
sølvbunke Norwegian
nurmilauha Finnish
tunturilauha Finnish
çayırsaçı Turkish
śmiałek darniowy Polish
gyepes sédbúza Hungarian
deshampsia tufore Albanian
deshampsie Albanian
thekçi Albanian
туфеста пластица Bulgarian
fā cǎo Chinese
发草 Chinese
travnjačka busika Croatian
metlice trsnatá Czech
luht-kastevars Estonian
parastā ciņusmilga Latvian
kupstinė šluotsmilgė Lithuanian
tîrsă Romanian
metlica trsnatá Slovak
rušnata masnica Slovene
щучник дернистий Ukrainian
brigwellt cydynnog Welsh