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The Windgrasses (Apera Adans., Poaceae) in North America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

F. E. Northam  and
R. H. Callihan
F. E. Northam
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant, Soil, Entomol. Sci., Univ. Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843
R. H. Callihan
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant, Soil, Entomol. Sci., Univ. Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843
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Abstract

Two introduced windgrass species have become crop weeds in North America. Common windgrass is a major weed of winter cereals in Europe and was first documented in North America in the early 1800s. It is a weed of roadsides and waste areas in the northeastern United States and in winter grain fields of southern Ontario and Michigan. Interrupted windgrass was first reported in North America approximately 90 yr ago; it is adapted to more arid sites than common windgrass and is distributed predominantly in the northwestern U.S.A. During the past 10 to 15 yr, interrupted windgrass has adversely affected winter grain and grass seed producers in the Pacific Northwest due to additional control costs.

Keywords

Common windgrass, Apera spica-venti (L.) Beauvinterrupted windgrass, Apera interrupta (L.) BeauvAlien plantsweed biologyweed geographyApera interruptaApera spica-venti.
Type
Education Review
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , June 1992 , pp. 445 - 450
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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