Poaceae
Agrostis

Agrostis mertensii Trin.

First published in Linnaea 10: 302 (1836)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Subarctic & Temperate Northern Hemisphere, Costa Rica to W. Argentina. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the subalpine or subarctic biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, British Columbia, Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, East European Russia, Ecuador, Finland, Greenland, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Montana, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nunavut, Ontario, Peru, Québec, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Sweden, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wyoming, Yukon

Introduced into:

France

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

Kew's Tree of Life Explorer

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it.

View the Tree of Life
PAFTOL

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • (2020). https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.151.50538. epublication.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2007). Flora of North America North of Mexico 24: 1-908. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (2020). Flora of Japan IVa: 1-430. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
  • Vigosa-Mercado, J.L. & al. (2023). Revision of the genus Agrostis (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae) in Megamexico. PhytoKeys 230: 157-256.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • (2023). https://www.ojs.darwin.edu.ar/index.php/darwiniana/article/view/1095/1322. epublication.
  • Brako, L. & Zarucchi, J.L. (1993). Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i-xl, 1-1286. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Fedorov, A.A. (ed.) (1999). Flora of Russia. The European part and bordering regions 1: 1-546. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, Broekfield.
  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2007). Flora of North America North of Mexico 24: 1-908. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Giraldo-Cañas, D. (2011). Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49: 139-247.
  • Hultén, E.O.G. (1960). Flora of the Aleutian Islands and westernmost Alaska Peninsula: with notes on the flora of Commander Islands, ed. 2: 1-376. Weinheim : J. Cramer ; New York : Hafner Pub. Co.
  • Jørgensen, P.M. & León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999). Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i-viii, 1-1181. Missouri Botanical Garden.
  • Kharkevich, S.S., Probatova, N.S. & Novikov, V.S. (1985). Sosudistye rasteniia sovetskogo Dal'nego Vostoka 1: 1-383. Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie, Leningrad.
  • Koyama, T. (1987). Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions: an identification manual: 1-570. Kodansha, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Malyschev, L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 2: 1-362. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 9, 2023 Breman, E.; McCabe, S.; Johnson, N.; Weststrand, S.; Aronsson, M. [EB23046] Sweden K009000926 No
Komarov, V.L. [s.n.] Russia K000838077 Unknown Type Material Yes
Fries [s.n.] Sweden K003589947 Yes
Sinker, C.A. [133] K003589949 Yes
Fellman, N.I. [s.n.] K003589959 Yes
[And.] [277] K003589958 Yes
Komarov, V.L. [s.n.] Russia K000838078 Unknown Type Material Yes
{E. af Hällström} [s.n.] Finland K003589929 Yes
Fellman, N.I. [s.n.] K004030654 Yes
Pringle, C.G. [s.n.] United States K000838194 Unknown Type Material Yes
Notó, A. [s.n.] Norway K003589952 Yes
Lindeberg, C.J. [s.n.] K003589954 Yes
Montell, I. [s.n.] Finland K003589948 Yes
Baker, C.F. [150] United States K000838195 Unknown Type Material Yes
Laestodius, L.L. [s.n.] Sweden K000838144 Unknown Type Material Yes
Ahlberg, F. [s.n.] Norway K003589933 Yes
Zetterstedt, J.E.; Wickbom, J.A.O. [s.n.] Norway K003589961 Yes
Gaudin, J.F.A.G.P. [s.n.] Sweden K000838143 Unknown Type Material Yes
Lagerheim, C. [s.n.] K003589960 Yes
Frisendahl, L. [s.n.] Sweden K003589964 Yes
Anderson, N.J. [s.n.] K003589955 Yes
Tuckerman, E. [s.n.] United States K000838192 Unknown Type Material Yes
[B. V. Milbouon] [89] Sweden K003589951 Yes
Kharkevich, S.; Buch, T. [s.n.] Russia K003343017 Yes
Sternberg, S. [s.n.] Greenland K000838145 Unknown Type Material Yes
Buhse [s.n.] Sweden K003589932 Yes
[L. Fernande]; [B. Varlol] [s.n.] K003589943 Yes
Zetterstedt, J.E.; Zetterstedt, P.L. [s.n.] Norway K000838142 Unknown Type Material Yes
Lagerheim, C.; Sjögren, G. [s.n.] K003589945 Yes
Ahlberg, F. [s.n.] K003589965 Yes
[Berlin] [s.n.] K003589957 Yes
Collett, R. [s.n.] Norway K003589942 Yes
Tuckerman [s.n.] United States K000743642 Type Yes
Holmberg, O.R. [s.n.] Sweden K003589931 Yes
Lagerheim, C.; Sjögren, G.; [Wihitron] [s.n.] K003589956 Yes
Falck, A. [s.n.] Norway K003589963 Yes
Vesterlund, O. [s.n.] Sweden K003589962 Yes
{E. af Hällström} [s.n.] Finland K003589930 Yes
Holmberg, O.R. [s.n.] Sweden K003342480 Yes
Pringle, C.G. [s.n.] United States K000838193 Unknown Type Material Yes
Holmberg, O.R. [s.n.] Sweden K003342479 Yes
[Zellerstedt] [1844] Sweden K003589953 Yes
[Edo af Hallstron] [1046] Finland K003589946 Yes
Bökman, K. [s.n.] Norway K003589941 Yes
Lagerheim, C.; Sjögren, G. [s.n.] K003589944 Yes
Samuelsson, G. [s.n.] Sweden K003589927 Yes
Moe, N.G. [s.n.] Norway K003589928 Yes
Laestadius, L.L. [s.n.] Sweden K000838141 Unknown Type Material Yes
Ahlberg [s.n.] Norway K003589950 Yes
s.coll. [s.n.] Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343018 Yes
Furuse, M. [22422] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343248 Yes
Furuse, M. [21064] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343245 Yes
Furuse, M. [31447] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343243 Yes
Furuse, M. [31259] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343241 Yes
Furuse, M. [34389] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343242 Yes
Furuse, M. [37379] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343244 Yes
Furuse, M. [9306] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343249 Yes
Furuse, M. [44250] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343247 Yes
Komarov, V.L. [s.n.] Russia Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343019 Yes
Komarov, V.L. [s.n.] Russia Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343020 Yes
Furuse, M. [32620] Japan Agrostis mertensii subsp. borealis K003343246 Yes
Fiebrig, K. [2905] Bolivia Agrostis boliviana K000308376 Unknown Type Material Yes
Fiebrig, K. [2821] Bolivia Agrostis boliviana K000308377 Unknown Type Material Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0