| Hierochloe | |
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| Hierochloe odorata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Hierochloe R.Br. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Hierochloe is a genus of plants in the grass family known generally as sweetgrass.[3] These are perennial rhizomatous grasses found primarily in temperate and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America, although some species extend southwards into Australia and Latin America.[1][4]
These erect green grasses are known for their sweet scent. They bear panicle inflorescences with rounded grass grain fruits.[5]
Some authors advocate merging the two genera Hierochloe and Anthoxanthum, though others disagree.[6][7][8]
- Species[1]
- Hierochloe alpina - Russia, Scandinavia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, Canada, Greenland, Alaska, northern United States (ME NH VT NY MN)
- Hierochloe australis - northern + central Europe
- Hierochloe brunonis - New Zealand (South I + Antipodean Is)
- Hierochloe cuprea - New Zealand (South I + North I)
- Hierochloe davidsei - Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica
- Hierochloe equiseta - New Zealand South I)
- Hierochloe flexuosa - Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh
- Hierochloe fraseri - Tasmania
- Hierochloe fusca - New Zealand (South I + North I, Chatham Is, Antipodean Is)
- Hierochloe glabra - China incl Tibet; Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Asiatic Russia, Kazakhstan
- Hierochloe gunckelii - Chile, Argentina
- Hierochloe helenae - Primorye
- Hierochloe juncifolia - Chile, Argentina
- Hierochloe khasiana - Assam
- Hierochloe laxa - Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Nepal, Gansu, Sichuan
- Hierochloe mexicana - Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela
- Hierochloe novae-zelandiae - New Zealand (South I + North I)
- Hierochloe occidentalis - Washington, Oregon, California
- Hierochloe odorata - Eurasia, North America
- Hierochloe pauciflora - Russia, Canada, Alaska
- Hierochloe pluriflora - Japan
- Hierochloe potaninii - Gansu, Sichuan
- Hierochloe pusilla - Chile, Argentina
- Hierochloe quebrada - Peru
- Hierochloe rariflora - Australia
- Hierochloe recurvata - New Zealand (South I + North I)
- Hierochloe redolens - Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South America, Falkland Is
- Hierochloe repens - Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Rep, Hungary, Austria
- Hierochloe spicata - southern Chile
- Hierochloe submutica - Australia
- Hierochloe tibetica - Tibet
- Hierochloe utriculata - Chile, Argentina
- Hierochloe wendelboi - Pakistan
- Hierochloe × zinserlingii - Ural Mountains of Russia
- formerly included[1]
numerous species now regarded as better suited to other genera: Anthoxanthum Centotheca Holcus
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants see § 60.6
- ^ Brown, Robert. 1810. Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 208-209 in Latin
- ^ USDA Plants Profile
- ^ Jepson Manual Treatment
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 336 黄花茅属 huang hua mao shu Anthoxanthum Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 28. 1753
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Anthoxanthum
- ^ Hope, Tom, & Gray, Alan, Grasses of the British Isles: BSBI Handbook No. 13, Botanical Society of the British Isles, 2009, p 312. ISBN 978-0-901158-42-0.