EPPO Global Database

Lolium pratense(FESPR)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-02-14

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: FESPR
  • Preferred name: Lolium pratense
  • Authority: (Hudson) Darbyshire

Notes

Practically all Euromediterranean area, Caucasus, Siberia, Western Asia, Central Asia, Himalayas. Widely used as a forage grass. Introduced in Russian Far East, China, Korea, North America (including Greenland), southern South America, Australia

 WSSA list of weeds in North America


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Festuca pratensis Hudson
Schedonorus pratensis (Hudson) Palisot de Beauvois

Common names
Name Language
meadow fescue English
Wiesenschwingel German
fétuque des prés French
fétuque élevée French
cañuela Spanish
cañuela de los prados Spanish
cañuela de prados Spanish
festuca de los prados Spanish (AR)
festuca dei prati Italian
beemdlanbloem Dutch
beemdlangbloem Dutch
capim-do-prado Portuguese
festuca-dos-prados Portuguese
ängssvingel Swedish
hirohaushinokegusa Japanese
ヒロハウシノケグサ Japanese
овсяница луговая Russian
engsvingel Danish
engsvingel Norwegian
nurminata Finnish
çayır yumağı Turkish
kostrzewa łakowa Polish
kostrzewa łąkowa Polish
réti csenkesz Hungarian
bishtpelëz Albanian
bishtpelëza e lartë Albanian
bishtpelëza e livadheve Albanian
arrauka Basque
ливадна власатка Bulgarian
festuca pratense Catalan
cǎo diàn yáng máo Chinese
草甸羊茅 Chinese
mavra  Croatian
kostřava luční Czech
harilik aruhein Estonian
pļavas auzene Latvian
tikrasis eraičinas Lithuanian
păiuș de livezi Romanian
вијук Serbian
сламица Serbian
kostrava lúčna Slovak
travniška bilnica Slovene
костриця лучна Ukrainian
peisgwellt y waun Welsh