EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: LOLTE
• Preferred name: Lolium temulentum
• Authority: Linnaeus

Euromediterranean (except northwest), Siberia, Caucasus, Western Asia, Central Asia, Himalayas, India, China, Korea. Introduced in Russian Far East, Japan, eastern and southern Africa, North, Central and South America, Australasia. A weed of cereal crops which is frequently infected by ergot fungi and therefore toxic

WSSA list of weeds in North America