Neilreichia 9: 177–245 (2018)
Alien grasses (Poaceae) in the flora of the Eastern Alps:
Contribution to an excursion flora of Austria and the Eastern Alps
Peter Englmaier1 & Thomas Wilhalm2
1 Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria;
e-mail: peter.franz.josef.englmaier@univie.ac.at
2 Museum of Nature South Tyrol, Bindergasse 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy; e-mail: thomas.wilhalm@
naturmuseum.it
A b s t r a c t : This overview presents the recent knowledge on non-native (archaeophytic, neophytic and regionally neophytic) grasses in Austria and the Eastern Alpine territory. In total, 220
taxa are discussed, 175 of them are neophytes, 19 are regional neophytes, 3 are subspontaneous
garden escapes and 23 are quoted as archaeophytes. By comparison with Walter & al. (2002) and
Fischer & al. (2008), the impact of neophytes in the recent past can be estimated for the Austrian
part of the territory, where 152 alien taxa are actually known, 32 (21 percent) were newly recorded
in the last decade, among them, 6 are invasive or suspectedly invasive.
Meanwhile, several species are naturalized, but the share of invasive and potentially invasive
taxa (44 species, 20 percent) is surprisingly low. They are subject of enhanced attention. Commonly,
invasive characteristics are considered only as a suppression of the native flora, but an impact is
also caused by introgression (via hybridization of aliens with closely related native taxa), and such
processes may remain undetected for a long time.
Increasing traffic, fitout of transport routes and their maintenance support the propagation of alien
species as well as globalized product flows in general, especially trading of ornamental plants, seeds
and horticultural accessories. Moreover, climatic change may facilitate a spread of species requiring
warmer environmental conditions. It will need some more legal regulations to control this trend.
Considering that, expertise of botanists, as well as of experienced horticulturists is indispensable.
K e y w o r d s : alien plants, distribution, disturbed sites, naturalization, invasive species
Z u s a m m e n f a s s u n g : Gräser-Neophyten (Poaceae) in der Flora der Ostalpen: Beitrag
zu einer Exkursionsflora der Ostalpen
Im vorliegenden Überblick wird der aktuelle Kenntnisstand über nicht heimische (archaeophytische, neophytische und auch regional neophytische) Gräser in Österreich und im Ostalpenraum
zusammengestellt. Es handelt sich um 220 Taxa, wovon 175 als Neophyten, 19 als regionale Neophyten, 3 als subspontane Gartenflüchtlinge und 23 als Archäophyten eingestuft werden. Nur für
den österreichischen Anteil sind Vergleichszahlen verfügbar (Walter & al. 2002 sowie Fischer &
al. 2008), um den Neuzugang abschätzen zu können. Demnach sind von den 152 in Österreich erfassten neophytischen Gräsern 32 im letzten Jahrzehnt neu aufgefunden worden, was einem Anteil
von 21 Prozent entspricht. Davon sind 6 als invasiv bekannt oder verdächtig.
Etliche Arten können nunmehr als eingebürgert gelten, als invasiv bzw. potentiell invasiv erscheinen dabei aber überraschend wenige (44 Arten, 20 Prozent des Gesamtbestandes), denen aber
verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit zu widmen ist. Vielfach wird die invasive Eigenschaft nur hinsichtlich
einer Verdrängung heimischer Arten gesehen, doch können invasive Eigenschaften auch durch Introgression in heimische Arten zum Ausdruck kommen und bleiben so, obwohl von ähnlicher Konsequenz wie Verdrängung, oft lange Zeit unbeachtet.
Die Zunahme des Verkehrs und der Ausbau der Verkehrswege sowie deren Instandhaltung leisten
der Ausbreitung gebietsfremder Arten zunehmend Vorschub, aber auch die globalisierten WarenDOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1196285
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ströme im allgemeinen, besonders der Handel mit Zierpflanzen, Saatgut und Gartenprodukten, tragen wesentlich dazu bei. Klimaveränderungen können zudem die Etablierung wärmebedürftiger
Arten begünstigen. Es wird also der weiteren Entwicklung von legistischen Regulativen bedürfen,
um hier wirksam gegensteuern zu können. Die Expertise von Botanikern, aber auch erfahrenen
Gärtnern ist hiefür unerläßlich.
Introduction
Almost 15 years have passed since Walter & al. (2002) had listed the neophytic plants
in Austria, and a decade has gone since the last edition of the Austrian excursion flora
(Fischer & al. 2008) was published. Meanwhile numerous records of new or recently
confirmed alien grasses were noted in various floristic publications, periodicals and
web forums. Planning the forthcoming 4th edition of this excursion flora as a flora
of Austria and the entire Eastern Alps (Fischer 2018, M. A. Fischer, pers. comm.), an
update for the whole, extended territory, including the Bavarian, Swiss, Italian and Slovenian part of the Eastern Alps is urgently required. This conspectus covers spontaneously occurring alien grasses in Austria and the Eastern Alps in their geographical, not
geological circumscription, westwards delimited by a line following the Rhine valley
up to the Splügen pass and the Val S. Giacomo down to Chiavenna and the Lake Como
along its eastern shoreline, southwards by the Vipava valley system (Vipavska dolina)
and eastwards by the Austrian border.
With small, easily germinating caryopses, a lot of grasses are well suited for longdistance dispersal, and they are also fit for survival in various habitats, even under
extreme, artificial conditions, annuals as well as perennials. Resistance against disturbances and against various herbicides together with rapid regeneration help them to
survive even urban and roadside maintenance.
Neophytes are not a recent phenomenon: some historical records, even of less frequent
species are quite astonishing: Aira elegantissima, known since 1883 from Innernstein
in Upper Austria by a specimen from herbarium J. Wiesbaur (LI 041430); Alopecurus
rendlei, known from Graz (Styria) since 1826 (Janchen 1960); Cynosurus echinatus
(early record from Upper Austria in Hödl 1877: 14); Eragrostis minor (herbarium specimen from Linz, Upper Austria: “Urfahr, Kapellenmauer am Rosenauer Wiesengrunde”,
1829, leg. J. Mor, cited by Hohla 2006a); Eragrostis multicaulis, known from Graz
since 1840 (in the old botanical garden and unintentionally transferred to the botanical
garden at its new location, 8958/2: Melzer 1989); Eragrostis pilosa (since 1866 known
from Innsbruck, Pagitz 2012; further early record from Upper Austria was published
by Vierhapper 1891: 150); Festuca valesiaca subsp. parviflora (herbarium specimen
from Upper Austria: “Bahndämme zwischen Ried und Mehrnbach”, 1885, leg. F. Vierhapper, cited by Hohla 2012a); Panicum capillare (in Upper Austria evident since 1855
by a herbarium specimen “Neubau”, near Oftering, leg. J. Duftschmid, Hohla & al.
1998), its subsp. barbipulvinatum (“Aus einem Garten in Wr. Neustadt”, Lower Austria,
14. 7. 1831, hb. Altmann, W 2009-13874, Hohla & al. 2015) and Tragus racemosus (first
record in Lower Austria by Dollinger 1842: 141 [554]). Murr (1931) already named 17
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alien species from North Tyrol. Among all of the wild Setaria species, Dalla Torre &
Sarnthein (1906) named Setaria verticilliformis (sub nom. Panicum ambiguum) from
Bolzano and Trento. Conert (1998) named a lot of early records from Germany. Data
of Kleesadl & Brandstätter (2013), including some cross-references to historical
herbarium specimens, allow a good overview over the history of alien introduction in
Upper Austria.
In historic times, specific pathways of introduction were limited to seed aliens
(mainly archaeophytic species in crop cultures), wool aliens (caryopses in imported
sheep’s wool, with the well-known example of Festuca trachyphylla Hack. ex Druce,
“Alien, S. Amer. Galashiels, Selkirk, 1913, [from seeds grown by] Miss I. M. Hayward”:
Druce 1915: 29, non F. trachyphylla (Hack.) Kraj. 1930) or forage aliens. Several species of the latter are known, for example, from the surrounding of Bolzano (Hordeum
marinum subsp. marinum, Festuca ligustica [sub nom. Vulpia ligustica], Gaudinia fragilis, Polypogon monspeliensis, and Trisetaria panicea at First World War horse-stations
Kardaun and Oberau, Pfaff 1923, Kiem 1974). Meanwhile, these pathways have lost importance, leading to a disappearance of most of these alien species named above. Nowadays, globalized product flows and increasing traffic support an enhanced introduction
of alien species. Well-known examples of such transport aliens are several Mediterranean species coming with imported Mediterranean fruits (e.g. Bromus madritensis,
frequently found at cargo railway stations). Some other species, like Puccinellia distans,
Festuca valesiaca subsp. parviflora (= F. pseudovina), Sporobolus neglectus and S. vaginiflorus unspecifically came with road traffic.
Recently, a lot of new species are intentionally or accidentally introduced with trading of ornamental plants, seeds and horticultural accessories, indicated by their early
occurrence near nurseries and gardening companies (Coix lacryma-jobi: Essl 2003,
Digitaria setigera: Hohla 2011a, Stenotaphrum secundatum var. variegatum: Hohla
& al. 2015). Abandoned public plantations may also be responsible for alien occurrence
in their neighbourhood (e.g. Calamagrostis brachytricha, Cenchrus purpurascens and
Nassella tenuissima in Vienna). Furthermore, seed aliens become again more frequent:
landscaping (e.g. Festuca brevipila, see Englmaier 2009) and amelioration seeding
(Festuca nigrescens for example) open new stands for neophytes in grassland habitats,
even examples of aliens distributed by seed mixtures for attractive flowery meadows
were discussed (e.g. Aegilops cylindrica in Essl & Stöhr 2006).
Sometimes trading with seeds as a deliberate introduction pathway may be overestimated: Melzer (1985) assumed Hordeum jubatum to be unintentionally introduced
as an impurity of seed mixtures of American origin. Later on, Melzer (in Hohla &
Melzer 2003) found a more exaggerated wording “Gleich Puccinellia distans wird
es mit amerikanischem Saatgut zur Begrünung von Straßenrändern und -böschungen
eingebracht”, with an additional citation (Melzer 1987, dealing with Hordeum jubatum,
but not with seed mixtures of American origin). Melzer never gave any solid evidence
on origin and application rate of such seed mixtures. Indeed, Zahlheimer (1986) mentioned Puccinellia distans seed material offered by an Austrian company (HESA, Him-
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berg), but this came from Eastern Europe and was of very low market impact. Puccinellia distans is not native to America, and no evidence on American commercial import of
P. distans seed could be found. Nowadays, the only seed mixture containing P. distans
is available from Kärntner Saatbau company, but with comparably low market impact.
With Sporobolus species, Melzer (1994, 2003) also assumed an introduction by American seed material, whereas Wilhalm (1998) did not find solid indications suggesting
this pathway. Usually, roadside and winter maintenance by machinery is sufficient for
a rapid spread of such species along long road sections, not only motorways or main
roads, but also secondary roads maintained by supraregional centers, as impressively
exemplified with recently recorded Sporobolus neglectus in Deutsch-Griffen, Carinthia
(obs. P. Englmaier, 2017).
Besides wasteland at roadsides, railway stations and rail tracks, a lot of similar habitats are nowadays accessible for neophytes, such as abandoned industrial or commercial
areas. Change of habitat properties of extensively used pastureland (abandonment of
community pastures) may also open new stands for aliens, the same for wetlands after
melioration (with Dichanthelium acuminatum in the Rhine corridor as an example, see
Aschauer & Grabher 2017). Once introduced in such habitats, further distribution
may occur with civil engineering and road construction (seeds unintentionally transported by construction machinery). Moreover, mechanized and monocultural farming
facilitate the spread of several crop weeds, especially maize weeds.
Today’s hot topic of climate change, together with heat spots in urban microclimate
may be responsible for further introduction and spread of species requiring warm environmental conditions and may also lead to a continuous increase of several alien species
in seminatural areas. It seems to enhance invasiveness as well as to favour regional
neophytes in Alpine valleys (e.g. Bromus inermis), but at present, these effects are unpredictable. Considerate research is essential to elucidate the complex interaction of
steering factors with introduction and invasiveness of plant aliens.
In many cases, spontaneity and invasiveness of newly introduced species are not
easily assessable. Some local escapes will not become persistent, for many reasons (as
specialized habitat preferences, ineffective seed dispersal, lacking competitive abilities). Nevertheless, no alien grass can be seen as harmless and without influence on
natural or semi-natural habitats and vegetation, as Scholz (2011) does. Prosser &
Bertolli (2015), for example, discussed a negative impact on biotopes even by regionally invasive Bromus inermis. In agricultural science, some crop weeds are rated to
reduce crop harvest, such as Alopecurus myosuroides (e.g. Lutman & al. 2013). Even
annual grasses germinating in temporal gaps of grassland vegetation may suppress
native annuals. So any newly recognized alien, for instance Calamagrostis brachytricha or Festuca rubra subsp. litoralis, needs attention: every invasive incident began on
a local scale.
Usually, invasive characteristics are only considered as suppression of the native
flora, but also introgressions into indigenous species are possible, as they frequently
occur between hexaploids of the Festuca rubra group, between diploids of the Festuca
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valesiaca group or in the Bromus erectus group, for example. These may remain undetected for a long time. In most cases, they are only recognized in floristic work, when
some uncertainties will be detected using common determination keys.
In future, additional legal regulations will be needed to control this trend. The list
of invasive alien species of Union concern, recently updated (European Union 2017),
only contains two grass species (Microstegium vimineum and Cenchrus setaceus, sub
nom. Pennisetum setaceum), both not yet observed in the wild within the territory. EUsupported research papers and publications on this topic (e.g. Prosser & Bertolli 2015)
are thus of special importance.
Organization of the species catalogue
Source of data
Most data came from literature review: If not individually cited, records from Austrian federal states came from Fischer & al. (2008) and from Walter & al. (2002),
including comprehensive references considered herein, e.g. Forstner & Hübl (1971)
and were supplemented with Maurer (2006), Hohla & al. (2009), Pflugbeil & Pilsl
(2013), and Polatschek & Neuner (2013), with some additional status information from
Vorarlberg’s Red List (Amann 2016). Records from the Bavarian Alps came from BIB
(“Botanischer Informationsknoten Bayern”, http://daten.bayernflora.de/de/index.php),
additionally from Dörr & Lippert (2001), from FL from Fischer & al. (2008), from
GRB from Info Flora (https://www.infoflora.ch/de/). Records from Italy came from
Celesti-Grapow & al. (2009, 2010), Pignatti (1982, 2017), G. Galasso (pers. comm.),
Galasso & al. (2018) and from the Poaceae section of the site “Flora Italiana” (http://
luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraindice.php), all on region level. Records from Italian
provinces came from Martini & al. (2012) (BG, BS), Kiem (1978) (BS, BZ , TN, VR)
Wilhalm (2001) or the web portal “FloraFaunaSüdtirol” (http://www.florafauna.it/)
(BZ), Poldini (2002), Nimis & al. (2013) (UD) and Jogan (1997, 2001) (SLO). Personal
observations of the authors and data from several local contributors were also considered.
All recent evidence is individually cited, as well as earlier, still overseen, first or
single references for less frequent species and detailed treatises or revisions of herbarium specimens. First records without additional information are not cited individually if
already mentioned in other references. All references were cross-checked for credibility,
herbarium specimens, if necessary, are individually cited. Herbarium abbreviations are
in accordance with the Index Herbariorum (New York Botanical Garden Herbarium,
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/). Single records of special interest are completed
with the quadrant of the floristic mapping scheme for Central Europe (Niklfeld 1971).
The status of floristic knowledge and data processing varies markedly between different federal states or provinces. New records from underestimated regions are thus
highly appreciated.
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Taxonomy
Generally, taxonomy is in conformance with Fischer & al. (2008) and the novelties
in Fischer & Englmaier (2018), including previous updates cited herein. Inevitable
nomenclatural changes are explained in annotations and indicated by cross references.
Commonly used synonyms and misused names are listed in brackets after the accepted
name.
Some genera and species groups urgently need revision, this is also explained in
annotations, completed with information on some highly confusable taxa.
General information on taxonomy, origin and distribution, if not individually cited,
consistently came from e-monocot (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Oxford University and
Natural History Museum, http://e-monocot.org/), GrassBase (Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew: Clayton W. D., Vorontsova M. S., Harman K. T. & Williamson H. 2006 onwards: The Online World Grass Flora, http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html), World
Grass Synonymy database (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Clayton W. D. & Harman
K. T. 2002 onwards), The Plant List (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden, http://www.theplantlist.org/), and Conert (1998).
Distribution within the territory
Distribution is indicated in the style of Fischer & al. (2008), completed with the Bavarian, Swiss, Italian and Slovenian part of the territory, abbreviated as follows:
Austrian federal states: B (Burgenland); W (Vienna); N (Lower Austria); O (Upper
Austria): ST (Styria); K (Carinthia); S (Salzburg); T (Austrian Tyrol, if separately
treated: NT = North Tyrol, OT = East Tyrol); V (Vorarlberg)
Germany: BAV (Bavarian Alps)
Principality of Liechtenstein: FL
Switzerland: GRB (Grisons)
Italian provinces: CO (Como); LC (Lecco); SO (Sondrio); BG (Bergamo); BS (Brescia); BZ (Bolzano, “SüdT” in Fischer & al. 2008); TN (Trento); VR (Verona); VI
(Vicenza); BL (Belluno); PO (Pordenone); UD (Udine)
Slovenia: SLO (Alpine part)
● Additional information
○ Doubtful [?]: Published record not supported by herbarium specimen or data
source not reliable.
○ Missing or extinct [–]: Once found in the territorial unit referred to, but no more
recent findings (e.g. some forage aliens like Bromus diandrus, Hordeum marinum
subsp. marinum, Festuca ligustica, Gaudinia fragilis, Polypogon monspeliensis,
and Trisetaria panicea, found near military facilities until the end of World Wars I
and II).
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Definition of terms regarding the floristic status
● Era of introduction
○ Archaeophytic: Species probably introduced before Christoph Columbus’s discovery of the “New World”, 1492, mainly together with crop cultivars. In several floras, some of these species are accidentally indicated as “indigenous”.
○ Neophytic: Species introduced after 1492.
● Status (according to Wilhalm 2001: 277 and Celesti-Grapow & al. 2009: 387):
○ Indigenous (native): Belonging to the species set of suitable natural habitats,
independent of human involvement.
○ Naturalized: Once introduced, such species will become established and able
to grow in suitable natural habitats.
○ Established: Once introduced, such species (annuals as well as perennials) may
permanently remain on their (mainly wasteland) stands, even outlasting temporal devastation (especially along roadsides).
○ Persistent: Once introduced, such species (mainly perennials) may survive for
several years, but without seed production or vegetative spread sufficient for
establishment, thus any temporal devastation may disrupt their occurrence.
○ Ephemeral (casual): Once introduced, such species may survive for at least
one (annuals) or two vegetation periods (perennials). Re-introduction is needed
to achieve occurrence for a longer period. With some of these species it may
be doubtful, if they really escaped spontaneously to open landscapes. Several
crop species are used for intercropping or erosion control and will also spontaneously grow in open landscapes. Cultivated crops, only exceptionally found
outside of cultures, such as maize and wheat, are not considered here.
● Invasiveness: Species with high competitive abilities may first enter temporal
gaps in natural or semi-natural habitats (mainly grassland) on replace indigenous
species. Potentially invasive species are suspected to become abundant in some
semi-natural habitats in the near future.
All invasiveness ratings refer to the highest level achieved anywhere in the
whole territory. Several territorial units or habitat types markedly threatened by
invasive alien grasses are named individually.
Origin
Describing areas, terms are used in the following circumscriptions: “Mediterranean
area” (countries or regions adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea), “Asia minor” (Turkey
peninsula, if separately treated), “Pannonian area” (the whole Pannonian basin), “Pontic
area” (countries or regions adjacent to the Black Sea), “Middle East” (sometimes named
as “Near East” in the sense of a word-to-word translation from German, including modern states of Mesopotamia, Iran and Afghanistan), “Central Asia” (Asian steppe belt).
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Species catalogue
Achnatherum bromoides (Aristella bromoides, Stipa bromoides)
Assessing the available data (Hamasha & al. 2012), the genus Aristella is sufficiently
supported for a morphologically and genetically distinct group around its generic type
(A. bromoides), but leaving the Achnatherum core group with its somewhat isolated type
A. calamagrostis (Romaschenko & al. 2011, 2012) still unresolved. Following Soreng
& al. (2017), to leave Achnatherum and treat Aristella as a synonym is considered to
more closely correspond to available data.
BG [–] (only one historical record in 0223/4, leg. Corti 7. 1894, MI); TN (Mezzocorona:
Dalla Torre & Sarnthein 1906, 9732/4: Prosser 1999); VR [–] (herbarium citation
“Lago di Garda, tra Malcesine e Torbole”, leg. Comboni 1933, FI, Moraldo 1986: 264
was recognized as erroneous and identified as Bromus erectus: Prosser 1999: 206)
Perennial neophyte (near the northern border of natural distribution), naturalized, not
invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Pannonian area, Crimea, Middle East.
Annotation: Achnatherum calamagrostis (Lasiagrostis calamagrostis), indigenous in
most of the territory, was found as a regional neophyte in W (Gilli 2018a) and ST
(Frohnleiten, 8758/1: Zernig 2015).
Achnatherum miliaceum → Oloptum miliaceum
Achnatherum virescens (Piptatherum virescens, Oryzopsis virescens)
According to findings of Romaschenko & al. 2011, 2012, nomenclature follows Banfi
& al. 2018.
B; N (already in Teyber 1909); O; SLO
Perennial. Indigenous in SLO (at the foothills of Kamniške Alps, N. Jogan, pers. comm.)
near the western border of its area, otherwise neophytic, established, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Pontic area, Middle East.
Aegilops
A consolidation with Triticum is still controversely discussed, even Bordbar & al.
(2011) did not succeed in finding convincing arguments for a decision. Following the
arguments of Perrino & al. (2014), Aegilops was left separately at generic rank. Taxonomy and nomenclature mainly follows van Slageren (1994).
Aegilops biuncialis (A. lorentii, A. biaristata, Triticum biunciale)
VR (van Slageren 1994, Perrino & al. 2014)
Annual neophyte (near the northern border of its natural distribution), ephemeral, not
invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Pontic area, Middle East.
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Aegilops cylindrica (Triticum cylindricum)
B (Barta 2015); W (van Slageren 1994, Essl & Stöhr 2006, Lefnaer 2016); N (Essl
& Stöhr 2006); ST (Melzer 1954); K; CO; BZ (9434/3, obs. B. Boisin, 1974:
Kiem 1974); VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual. Possibly indigenous or archaeophytic at the southern and eastern fringe of the
Alps, otherwise neophytic, locally established, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean area, Balkans, Pontic area, Central Asia, Middle East.
Aegilops geniculata (Aegilops ovata L. p.p., A. vagans, Triticum vagans, non T. geniculatum, Elymus bungeanus, Agropyron geniculatum)
BG (at Treviglio, 0423/4 and Romano, 0424/3, leg. Rota and Rodegher, PAV); BS (historical records in Pollini 1822, Rota 1853 and Zersi 1871 [Castenedolo, 0527/2];
M. Fratta near Botticino Mattina, 0427/2, obs. Crescini, 1985); BZ; UD
Annual neophyte (near the northern border of natural distribution), naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean area (Arrigo & al. 2010), spread to the whole Mediterranean area, Caucasus, Middle East.
Aegilops neglecta (Aegilops ovata L. p.p., A. ovata Roth, nom. illeg., A. contracta,
Triticum neglectum)
BS; TN; VR
Annual. Possibly indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, otherwise neophytic,
established, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Aegilops triuncialis (Triticum triunciale)
TN; VR; SLO (9459/2: Király & al. 2007)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Aegilops ventricosa (Triticum ventricosum)
VR; BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western and Southern Mediterranean area, Caucasus.
Agropyron desertorum
W (Titz 1966); BZ
Perennial neophyte, locally established, not invasive. Introduced with seed mixtures for
erosion control on extremely dry slopes (Wilhalm 2001).
Origin: Central Asia.
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Agropyron pectiniforme (A. cristatum subsp. pectinatum)
B; W; N; ST; BZ (9434/3, obs. E. Bückle, 1964: Kiem 1974, sub A. pectinatum); TN;
VR
Perennial. Indigenous in northeastern Austria, otherwise neophytic, locally established,
not invasive. Mainly introduced with seed mixtures or seed impurities (Wilhalm
2001).
Origin: Eastern Pannonian area, Central Asia.
Agrostis castellana (incl. the Eastern Mediterranean subsp. byzantina)
O (Hohla & al. 1998, Hohla 2012a); ST; K (Melzer 1993); NT; BZ (Wilhalm & al.
2008); SLO
Perennial neophyte, persistent to naturalized (in BZ and SLO near the northern border
of its natural distribution), potentially invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Annotation: Agrostis hyemalis was occasionally reported from Austria, either confused
or synonymized with Agrostis scabra (F. Vierhapper, label of a specimen from Lower
Austria, LI 104063, Vierhapper 1925, Walter & al. 2002). It is smaller-flowered
(A. hyemalis: spikelets 1.5–1.7 mm, lemmas 1–1.2 mm, anthers 0.2 mm) with leaves
less than 1 mm wide (A. scabra: spikelets 2–2.7 mm, lemmas 1.5–1.7 mm, anthers
0.4–0.5 mm, leaves 1–3 mm wide: Kalveram 2016, similar morphometric data in
Barkworth & al. 2007). Not any occurrence is verified from the territory. Other
European records need critical examination: populations characterized by relatively
small flowers, with spikelets only slightly longer than 2 mm led Vollrath & al.
(2009) to doubtful records of A. hyemalis from Bavaria.
Agrostis scabra
N (surroundings of Gmünd: Hoheneich, Teyber 1909; Kleedorf, leg. F. Vierhapper
1913, WU s.n.; Kamp valley: Stiefern, 7460/3, leg. T. Barta 1998, LI 390105, rev.
W. Guter mann: Melzer & Barta 2000); O (7747/1: Hohla 2002, LI 418456, det.
M. Štech, conf. W. Gutermann, see Hohla & al. 2009; 7547/2: Hohla 2011b, LI
01133493, rev. W. Gutermann)
Short-living perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: North America.
Aira caryophyllea
B; W [–]; N; O [?] (Hohla & al. 2009); ST [–]; OT [–]; S (8144/3: Stöhr & al. 2012);
NT (Innsbruck: Polatschek & Neuner 2013); V [–]; CO; LC; SO; BS; BZ; TN;
VR
Annual. Indigenous mainly at the southern and eastern surroundings of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Mediterranean area, Northwest and East Africa.
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Aira elegantissima (A. elegans, A. capillaris)
B; W; N (Melzer & Barta 2005); O (7754/2: Stöhr & al. 2006); CO; BG; BS; BZ;
TN; VR
Annual. Possibly indigenous at the southern and southeastern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Alopecurus myosuroides
B; W; N (Melzer & Barta 1993); O (Hohla 2000, Hohla & al. 1998, 2005, 2009);
ST (Melzer 1954, 1996c); S [–] (Fischer 1946, Pilsl & al. 2008, Eichberger &
al. 2015b); NT (M. Thalinger, pers. obs.); OT; V (8424/3: Dörr & Lippert 2001);
BAV (8427/4: Dörr & Lippert 2001); GRB; CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN;
VR; VI; BL; PO; UD
Annual. Possibly indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic,
ephemeral to established, potentially invasive. In northwestern Europe (Great Britain, France, Germany), herbicide multiresistent Alopecurus myosuroides grew up to
a major problem in winter crop culture (Maréchal & al. 2012).
Origin: Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Alopecurus rendlei (A. utriculatus)
W [–]; ST; K; S (Pilsl & al. 2008); LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL
Annual. At the southern fringe of the Alps (northern border of its natural distribution)
known since historic times, but nowadays very rare due to habitat loss (e. g. in VF:
Prosser, pers. obs.). Elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Mediterranean area.
Anthoxanthum aristatum (A. puelii)
B; O; ST (Melzer 1954); NT [–]; V [–]
Annual neophyte, locally naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Western Mediterranean area.
Apera interrupta
B; W (Melzer & Barta 1992, 2005); N (Melzer & Barta 1999); O (Hohla & al.
2000); CO; TN (Kiem 1978; near Ala, obs. Prosser); VR
Annual archaeophyte, locally (TN) neophytic, naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East, Central Asia.
Apera spica-venti
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; BAV; GRB; CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR [–];
BL [–]; PO; UD; SLO
Annual archaeophyte (as a crop weed), naturalized, regionally invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East, Central Asia.
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Annotation: Arrhenatherum elatius was introduced, together with several other grassland species, early on with grassland cultivation throughout the territory (Scholz 1975,
Hejcman & al. 2013, Roehrs & al. 2013), nowadays increasingly spreading into wasteland. Some unawned cultivars were occasionally reported (e.g. Hohla 2009, Stöhr &
al. 2012).
Arundo donax
O (Hohla 2014); S (Pilsl & al. 2008); CO; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; VI; BL;
PO; UD
Perennial neophyte, locally naturalized at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere
locally distributed as rhizome fragments via garden refuse, potentially invasive.
Origin: Western Central Asia, Southern Asia.
Avena
Within the territory, all oat (Avena) species are archaeophytic, their ancestors originate
from the Middle East. Evolutionary analyses show that there are two centres relevant
for the development of cultivated oats in Europe, the Western Mediterranean centre for
A. strigosa (including Western Europe for A. nuda and A. brevis), with only diploids and
the Western Asian centre for A. sativa, up to hexaploids (mainly following Loskutov
2008). Nearly all of the oat taxa were confused in times past, so some historical records will be doubtful. Systematics and taxonomy of the A. sterilis group mainly follows
Scholz (1991). Hybrids between wild and cultivated oats within the A. sterilis group are
occasionally reported (e.g. Scholz 1996), but not considered here.
Avena barbata
ST (Melzer 1954); NT [–]; V; CO; BG; BS; BZ (9534/1: Kiem 1974); TN; VR; VI;
BL; PO; UD
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Middle East, Central Asia.
Avena brevis (A. nuda subsp. brevis, A. sativa subsp. brevis)
B [–]: “Unter der Saat auf Äckern bei Eisenstadt gegen St. Margareten und gegen
Sopron zu nicht selten” (Pill 1916, primary source of Janchen 1960, probably
also of Traxler 1982), no recent confirmation available, but formerly cultivated in
Austria (herbarium specimen “Österreich, kultiviert, Hohenacker” cited by Baum
1977).
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Mediterranean area.
Avena fatua
Loskutov (2008) designates it as a separate evolutionary line from A. sterilis, besides
A. sativa, and not as a feral form of A. sativa.
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B; W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST (Melzer 1954); K; S (Schröck & al. 2004); T; V;
BAV; GRB; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; VI; PO; UD; SLO
Annual archaeophyte, as a crop weed, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: probably Central Asia, spread to the whole Mediterranean area.
Annotation: Avena hybrida was frequently ignored (so in Fischer & al. 2008 and
Loskutov 2008), confused or treated as a synonym of A. fatua itself (so in Conert
1998 and in all databases used here) or of its subsp. septentrionale (Scholz 1991). When
describing it, Petermann suspected a hybrid of A. sterilis and A. fatua, but Baum (1977)
treated it as a separate species with micromorphological characteristics (shape of lodiculae) similar to A. sterilis. Baum (1977) already recorded it from O (Aistersheim, ex hb.
Keck), Scholz (2002b) recorded it from Germany, later on it was repeatedly found in
O (Hohla & al. 2005a, Stöhr & al. 2006). Moreover, A. fatua is typified with a specimen showing characteristics usually ascribed to A. hybrida. A proposal to designate a
neotype for A. fatua (Baum 1991) was rejected (Brummitt 1994: 114–115). The status of
A. hybrida and its relationship to either A. sativa or A. fatua need further investigations
– unfortunately A. hybrida is ignored in recent molecular genetic studies, e.g. Tomás &
al. (2016).
Annotation: Avena nuda, a further diploid historically cultivated mainly in Western
Europe, is morphologically well distinguishable from A. strigosa, nevertheless Walter
& al. (2002) include all historical records of A. nuda from Austria in A. strigosa. However, Baum (1977) cites one specimen in PRC, originating from “Neosstadt”, without
any further information. At least, an occurrence, especially in Northern Austria, is possible, but all records need a critical re-evaluation. Records in Fischer & al. (2008) from
B, W, N, and S could not be verified.
Avena sativa (incl. A. orientalis = A. sativa var. contracta)
Cultivated crop, but also used for intercropping and erosion control, thus allowing spontaneous growth of feral plants.
B; W; N; O; ST; S; T; V; GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; UD; SLO
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Originally cultivated in Central Asia.
Avena sterilis subsp. sterilis
BZ; TN; VR; VI
Records of A. sterilis not differentiated from subsp. ludoviciana come from W; ST
(Melzer 1954); NT; V [–]; CO; BG; BS; PO; UD
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: probably Central Asia, spread to the whole Mediterranean area.
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Avena sterilis subsp. ludoviciana
Loskutov (2008) designates it as the direct ancestor of A. sativa. Some morphological
characteristics are overlapping between subsp. sterilis and subsp. ludoviciana and complicate reliable determinations.
O (Hohla 2006c); BZ; TN; VR
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central Asia.
Avena strigosa (A. nuda subsp. strigosa)
Formerly cultivated, nowadays rarely used for erosion control, most of the records concern spontaneously growing feral plants.
B; W; N; O (Werneck 1954); ST (Melzer 1954); S [?] (Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013);
BZ
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Mediterranean area.
Beckmannia eruciformis
TN (2013, Luserna, leg. L. Sottovia, hb. Sottovia: F. Prosser, pers. comm.)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean area, Central Asia.
Beckmannia syzigachne
B [?] (a record in Fischer & al. 2008 could not be verified, see Wallnöfer & Barta
2012); N (Wallnöfer & Barta 2012); NT (Kufstein, Niederndorf: Smettan 2006)
Annual or short-living perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: temperate Asia, North America.
Bothriochloa ischaemum
B; W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST; K; S [–] (Eichberger & al. 2016); NT (already in
Murr 1931); V [–] BS; BZ; TN; VR; PO; UD; SLO (most recent record: 9853/2:
Mihorič 2016)
Perennial. Indigenous in Europe, regionally neophytic (outside of natural dry habitats,
see Pilsl & al. 2008), established, locally invasive.
Origin: Central Europe, Mediterranean area, Central and Southern Asia.
Brachypodium distachyon
ST (Melzer 1954); LC (only one record: P. Rossi, 1929); BG; BS (Kiem 1983); TN;
VR; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to naturalized (in VR), not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, North Africa, Middle East, India.
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Briza maxima
O (Hohla & al. 2015); BG; TN; VR; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, North Africa.
Briza minor
ST [–] (Melzer 1954); LC (Chiarugi 1956); TN; VR
A record from Salzburg (Walter & al. 2002) was falsified by Pflugbeil & Pilsl (2013).
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, North Africa, Middle East.
Bromus
Bromus s. lat. is monophyletic (Saarela & al. 2007) and thus treated further on in the
circumscription as in Fischer & al. (2008).
Bromus arvensis (Serrafalcus arvensis)
The relationship between B. arvensis subsp. arvensis, subsp. segetalis and subsp. parviflorus (characterization in Scholz 2002b) seem to be the same as between B. secalinus
subsp. secalinus, subsp. grossus and subsp. decipiens, see there.
B (Stöhr & al. 2007); W; N; O (7850/1: Hohla & al. 1998, Kleesadl 2009, 7447/2:
Hohla 2011b); ST; K; S [–] (Leeder 1923, Leeder & Reiter 1959); NT (Pagitz &
Lechner Pagitz 2015); V [–]; BAV (Dörr & Lippert 2001); GRB; CO; BG; BS;
BZ; TN; VR; VI; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual archaeophyte, introduced as a crop weed, today very rare in crop cultures, but
occasionally found in wastelands, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Middle East.
Bromus briziformis Fischer & C.A. Meyer 1837, Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 3, No.
299: 30 as B. brizaeformis (Serrafalcus briziformis; non “B. brizaeformis Willk.” in
Willkomm & Lange 1861, Prodr. Fl. Hispan. 1: 101 = B. squarrosus)
ST [–] (Melzer 1954, but no further observations)
Annual neophyte, cultivated as an ornamental grass, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Caucasus, Iran.
Bromus carinatus (Ceratochloa carinata)
Member of an intricate group, see B. sitchensis for details.
W; O; ST (Melzer 1989, 1995); K; S (Pilsl & al. 2008); NT (Pagitz & Lechner
Pagitz 2015); V; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO
Mainly distributed as a seed contamination in landscaping and road embankment maintenance.
Annual or short-living perennial neophyte, ephemeral, locally persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Western North and Central America.
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Bromus catharticus (B. unioloides, B. willdenowii, Ceratochloa cathartica)
W (Diran 2016); N; ST (Melzer 1954); K; S (Schröck & al. 2004, Eichberger & al.
2015b); NT (Murr 1931); OT; V; FL; CO; BG; BS; BZ; BL; PO; UD
Mainly distributed as a seed contamination in landscaping.
Annual or short-living perennial neophyte, ephemeral, locally persistent, locally invasive.
Origin: Central and South America.
Bromus diandrus (Anisantha diandra, B. gussonei, Zerna gussonei)
Polymorphic. Often confused with B. rigidus (Wilhalm & Pagitz 2001), various morphotypes are not correlated with one of these taxa (Veldkamp 1991).
O (7646/3, Hohla 2006b); ST [–]; K [–] both historical records of forage aliens, no recent confirmation; T (Wilhalm & Pagitz 2001); V; CO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR;
BL; PO
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive, possibly introduced with feedingstuff from Central
Italy (Wilhalm 2001).
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Bromus hordeaceus
Bromus hordeaceus is an insufficiently known, polymorphic species with several infraspecific taxa, divergently treated in some territorial units, some with unclear origin
(subsp. longipedicellatus, subsp. pseudothominei), but all of them probably best placed
on rank of subspecies. Details in Portal (2004) and Scholz (2008a).
Annotation: Bromus hordeaceus subsp. hordeaceus (incl. subsp. bicuspis) is an indigenous (or archaeophytic) taxon, distributed throughout the territory, with several, slightly
different, but insufficiently recognized populations. One of them, tall grown, was newly
described from Upper Austria as a “neo-anecophyte”, subsp. bicuspis (Scholz & Hohla
2008). It needs further investigation, even rank of subspecies is probably not supported.
Bromus hordeaceus subsp. lepidus (B. lepidus, B. gracilis Krösche, non Leysser, non
Weigel, incl. B. incisus)
Bromus incisus, newly described from Bavaria and also recorded from Upper Austria,
Raab (7647/2), in a seed production company (Scholz 2008a) seems to represent only
tall-grown populations of Bromus hordeaceus subsp. lepidus.
W [–]; O (7746/4: Hohla 2009); ST (Melzer 1961); NT [?] (Aeschimann & al. 2004,
highly doubtful, as neither cited with its original reference nor confirmed elsewhere); BZ; TN
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe.
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Bromus hordeaceus subsp. longipedicellatus (incl. var. parviglumis)
Recently described from Great Britain: Spalton (2001)
O (Scholz & Hohla 2008, Hohla 2011b)
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Probably Western Europe.
Bromus hordeaceus subsp. molliformis (non B. hordeaceus subsp. mediterraneus =
subsp. divaricatus auct.: Scholz 2008b)
This taxon needs critical re-evaluation and delimitation from subsp. mediterraneus
(Scholz 2008a, Portal 2004).
TN; VR (historical records by Goiran 1897–1904)
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Western Mediterranean area, Western Europe.
Bromus hordeaceus subsp. pseudothominei
First treated as a hybrid between subsp. hordeaceus and subsp. lepidus, but probably
resulting from introgression, followed by distribution with commercial seed. Original
material came from cultivated grassland in Great Britain (Scholz 1970).
B; W (Melzer & Barta 2008); N (Melzer & Barta 1999); O (Hohla & al. 1998, det.
H. Scholz, Hohla & al. 2000, Kleesadl 2009); ST; K (Melzer 1998); S (Pilsl
& al. 2008, Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017); T; V (Dörr & Lippert 2001); BZ
(Wilhalm & al. 2005)
Annual anecophyte, established, not invasive.
Origin, time and pathway of introduction unknown.
Bromus hordeaceus subsp. thominei
B (Melzer & Barta 2005); NT [?] (Maier & al. 2001, but highly doubtful)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: coastlines of Western Europe.
Bromus inermis subsp. inermis (Bromopsis inermis, Zerna inermis)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; FL; BAV; GRB; CO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO;
UD; SLO
Perennial. Indigenous in Europe, in inneralpine valleys, as already recorded by Murr
(1931) from the surrounding of Innsbruck and later on by Wilhalm (2001) from BZ
and Prosser & Bertolli (2015) from TN, rapidly spreading as a regional neophyte.
Established to naturalized, regionally highly invasive.
Origin: Eurasia.
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Bromus inermis subsp. pumpellianus (B. pumpellianus, B. arcticus, B. sibiricus, Bromopsis pumpelliana, Zerna pumpelliana)
Asian–North American vicariant of B. inermis. They have overlapping distribution
areas in Asia (distribution map in Conert 1998) and records of transitional forms as a
result of possible hybridization and hybridogenic introgression (Elliott 1949) substantiate, according to Wagnon (1952), a treatment as subspecies. Confusable with several
B. inermis cultivars for agricultural use.
W [?] (Diran 2016, no herbarium specimen available), O (7943/4: Hohla 2009); S (hb.
P. Pilsl: Hohla 2009); OT [?] (O. Stöhr, 2017, ined.)
Collections from Upper Austria and Salzburg were revised by H. Scholz, but it is evident, that “B. pumpellianus-like” plants often represent only B. inermis cultivars of
undocumented origin (U. Amarell, pers. comm.). On the other hand, an occurrence
of this species of cool-temperate climatic regions just in Vienna, at the abandoned
“Nordbahnhof” area, as reported by Diran (2016) seems to be particularly doubtful,
although several distinctive characteristics are discussed.
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Temperate Asia, North America, mainly Canada.
Bromus japonicus (Serrafalcus japonicus)
B; W; N; O (Hohla 2002, Hohla & al. 2005a, Kleesadl 2009); ST (Melzer 1954,
1995); K (Melzer 1996a); S (Reiter 1952, Pilsl & al. 2008, Stöhr & al. 2012); NT
(Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015); V [–]; GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; VI; BL; UD
Subsp. subsquarrosus (B. japonicus var. porrectus, B. japonicus var. transsilvanicus) was additionally recorded from BZ (St. Georgen near Bolzano, 1998, leg.
T. Wilhalm, BOZ) and TN (F. Prosser, pers. comm.).
Annual. Indigenous in Europe. In inneralpine valleys as a regional neophyte, naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Southeastern Europe, Eastern Mediterranean area, Central Asia. Early introduced in Japan (as already implied by its epitheton).
Bromus lanceolatus (B. macrostachys, Serrafalcus lanceolatus, Zerna macrostachys)
ST (Melzer 1981); BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2007)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive. Occasionally cultivated as ornamental plant.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Bromus madritensis (Anisantha madritensis, B. villosus Forssk., non Scop.)
ST (Melzer 1954, 1996c); NT; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; VI; BL; PO; UD
Mainly distributed with transport of Mediterranean fruits.
Annual neophyte, locally naturalized at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere
ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
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Bromus pannonicus (Bromopsis pannonicus, Zerna pannonicus)
Details on distinctive characteristics can be found in Melzer (1981).
B (Melzer 1984); N; ST (Melzer 1981); TN (Prosser & Bertolli 2015, annotation
at B. inermis page)
Intentionally introduced in Val di Sole with seed mixtures; few large, persistent
patches, mainly at roadsides (F. Prosser, pers. obs.). Possibly more frequent.
Perennial. Indigenous in Eastern Austria, in TN recorded as neophytic, ephemeral, not
invasive.
Origin: southeastern Europe.
Bromus racemosus subsp. lusitanicus
B (Scholz & Hohla 2008); O (Scholz & Hohla 2008)
Annual. Seems to be an archaeophytic, widespread variety of B. racemosus in cultivated
grassland. Needs further investigation to support its subspecies rank. Established,
not invasive.
Origin, time and pathway of introduction unknown.
Bromus rigidus (Anisantha rigida, Genea rigida, B. maximus)
Confusable with B. diandrus (Wilhalm & Pagitz 2001). Records from BG and BS in
Aeschimann & al. (2004) were recognized as erroneous: Martini & al. (2012).
UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Bromus riparius (Bromopsis riparius, Zerna riparia)
O (Hohla & al. 2015); S (Hohla 2011a: 8544/4, det. H. Scholz); GRB
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean area, Eastern Europe, parts of Central to Eastern Asia.
Bromus secalinus (Serrafalcus secalinus)
Bromus secalinus is one of the archaeophytic crop weeds introduced with crop species
and closely associated with their cultures and cultivation techniques. This fact results in
a co-evolution mainly driven by selection of caryopse size enlargement in accordance
with grain size. Thus, B. secalinus caryopses were no longer removed during seed cleaning. This process is also observable with other taxa, e. g. B. arvensis.
In modern seed separation processes, together with changing agricultural techniques, such a selection process is no longer effective, and mainly a trend to smaller
caryopses is observable in recent times, enhancing the similarity of these plants to their
ancestry. Consequently, Bomble & Scholz (1999) described a “subsp. decipiens” and
discussed a hypothesis on their origin as a “secondary weed” for only a simple ferality
process. In some characteristics subsp. decipiens resembles B. commutatus, the closest indigenous relative of B. secalinus (for differentiation characteristics see Spalton
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2002). For this reason, Scholz changed his mind and transferred his subsp. decipiens to
B. commutatus (Scholz 2003), but there are no stringent criteria for this argumentation.
In contrast to B. commutatus, B. secalinus is much more variable in its morphological
and ecological characteristics, nowadays frequently occupying various wasteland with
such smaller-shaped, smaller-flowering and -fruiting plants. Thus subsp. decipiens will
be still treated under B. secalinus, together with subsp. velutinus, representing the opposite trend of maximum adaptation to cultivated crop, as with B. arvensis subsp. segetalis, for example (see Scholz 1970: 145 and Scholz 2008b: 4).
B; N; O (Kleesadl 2017); ST; S; T; V [–]; BAV (Dörr & Lippert 2001); GRB; LC;
BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR [–]; BL [–]; PO; UD; SLO
Subsp. decipiens was recorded from B (Melzer & Barta 2008); N (Gilli 2018b);
O; ST; S (Stöhr & al. 2009); NT (Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015); BZ; UD
Subsp. velutinus (B. grossus, B. secalinus subsp. grossus, see Holub 1983) was recorded from B [–]; N; O [–]; ST; V [–]; FL [–]; BG [?]; BS [?] (the last two entries
by Aeschimann & al. 2004 are highly doubtful, not cited with its original reference
or confirmed elsewhere)
Annual archaeophyte, as a crop weed, today nearly extinct in crop cultures, but expanding to wastelands, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Middle East.
Bromus sitchensis (Ceratochloa sitchensis)
Bromus sect. Ceratochloa in the New World covers two easily distinguishable groups,
the octoploid North to Central American “B. carinatus complex” characterized by lemmas with mainly 7(–9) flat vascular bundles (“nerves”) and the hexaploid South to
Central American B. catharticus group characterized by lemmas with 9–11 prominent
vascular bundles. Within the predominantly cleistogamous “B. carinatus complex” all
attempts of morphological differentiation were of limited success, as well as all taxonomic concepts, varying from distinct species (Pavlick 2003) to varieties (Brainerd &
al. 2016). Bromus sitchensis has priority on species rank, for other taxa on species rank
several names were used, in Europe traditionally B. carinatus only (e.g. Verloove 2006,
also in Fischer & al. 2008). Later on, Verloove (2012) presented a concept with two
species notable for Europe, B. sitchensis with broad leaves and long, drooping panicle
branches with spikelets at the tips of the branches and B. carinatus with narrow leaves
and short, mainly erect panicle branches with spikelets also on shorter side-branches.
Both names are used here in Verloove’s sense, but one must keep in mind, that on species rank, B. luzonensis will have priority over B. carinatus, if the origin of its type and
its conspecificity with B. carinatus are confirmed (Saarela & al. 2014). The whole
“carinatus complex” needs a critical re-evaluation, a species rank for all of its members
is not sufficiently supported.
Bromus sitchensis seems to be the most frequently occurring taxon in Central
Europe (Verloove 2012) and all former B. carinatus records need a critical revision,
whereas in South Tyrol, B. sitchensis is the less frequent species (Wilhalm & al. 2017).
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O (Hohla 2012a, confirm. F. Verloove; Kleesadl 2017); BG; BS (confusion with
B. carinatus not completely excluded); BZ; TN; VR; BL
Mainly distributed as a seed contamination in landscaping and road embankment
maintenance.
Annual or short-living perennial neophyte, ephemeral, locally persistent, locally invasive.
Origin: Western North and Central America.
Calamagrostis brachytricha (C. arundinacea var. brachytricha, C. varia var.
longiaristata, Deyeuxia brachytricha)
East Asian vicariant of C. arundinacea characterized by Tateoka (1969), placed
within a subclade including C. arundinacea (Saarela & al. 2017), semiapomictic, with
apomictic aneuploids as well as fertile hexaploids used in commercial gardening. Ornamental grass (“Diamond grass”), nowadays frequently used in ornamental gardening,
mainly offered as “Achnatherum brachytrichum” or “Stipa brachytricha”.
W (2017, leg. P. Englmaier, in abandoned public green areas, previously not known in
the wild all over the territory)
Perennial neophyte, persistent. Observed so far only as a garden escape, not really
spontaneous. No data available on its possible invasiveness, but some cultivars are
known as easily germinating and thus commercially grown from seed (M. Münch,
pers. comm.). Potentially growing in the wild in areas with cool and humid summers, even in slightly shaded stands. Highly confusable with native Calamagrostis,
mainly C. arundinacea, so possibly overseen and thus undiscovered up to now.
Origin: Eastern Asia, in deciduous woodland (Krestov & al. 2006).
Catapodium balearicum (C. marinum var. balearicum)
Species rank possibly not supported, for characteristics see Brullo & al. (2003).
TN; VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: (Western) Mediterranean area.
Catapodium rigidum (Scleropoa rigida, Desmazeria rigida)
W (Barta 2018a); O (7950/3: Kleesadl 2017); ST [–] (Melzer 1954); S (Stöhr & al.
2009); BG; BS (Kiem 1983); BZ [–] (Kiem 1974); TN; VR; BL; PO; UD
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Cenchrus
Molecular genetic data suggest an inclusion of Pennisetum into Cenchrus (Chemisquy
& al. 2010). Due to ambiguous use of some common epitheta on species rank, several
nomenclatural changes are necessary.
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Cenchrus americanus (Panicum americanum, Pennisetum glaucum, non Cenchrus
glaucus)
Tropical crop (“Pearl millet”), for 4500 years cultivated in western Africa and soon
spread to Southern Asia (Veldkamp 2014). Mainly distributed with bird seed.
VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Tropical Africa (Veldkamp 2014).
Cenchrus flaccidus (Pennisetum flaccidum, P. centralasiaticum)
BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2014)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central and East Asia.
Cenchrus longisetus (Pennisetum villosum, Cenchrus villosus)
BG; VR
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Africa, South Arabian peninsula (Veldkamp 2014).
Cenchrus macrourus (Pennisetum macrourum)
S (8344/2: Stöhr & al. 2007)
Perennial neophyte (in temperate Europe rarely overwintering), ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: South Africa.
Cenchrus purpurascens Thunb., in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 329, 1794 (Pennisetum alopecuroides, Panicum alopecuroides L., non Cenchrus alopecuroides Thunb.,
Prodr. Pl. Cap. 1: 24, 1794)
Frequently cultivated as an ornamental clump grass, especially in public areas. Scarcely
spreading, thus mainly found in abandoned public cultivations or as garden refuse, but
not really spontaneous.
W (Gilli 2016a); N (Hohla & al. 2015); O (Hohla 2002, 2006a, 2006c); ST (Stöhr &
al. 2009); BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2014)
Perennial neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Southeastern Asia, Japan, Australia (Veldkamp 2014).
Cenchrus spinifex (C. incertus, C. pauciflorus)
ST [–] (Graz, Melzer 1954, only one observation); VR
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, in VR naturalized, not invasive in the territory, but
highly invasive in sandy habitat types, e.g. in the Pannonian basin.
Origin: Central and South America (Verloove & Sánchez Gullón 2012).
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Chrysopogon gryllus
B; N; CO; SO; BG; BS; BZ (Kiem 1978); TN; VR; VI; PO; UD; SLO
Perennial. Indigenous at the southern and eastern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean, Pannonian and Pontic area, Middle East, Southern Asia.
Cleistogenes serotina (Kengia serotina, Diplachne serotina)
B; N; NT (Murr 1931, Handel-Mazzetti 1964, Hölzel 1996; treated as extinct for
NT in Maier & al. 2001); CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ (Kiem 1974); TN; VR; VI; BL;
PO; UD
Perennial. Possibly indigenous at the southern and eastern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere
neophytic, ephemeral to established, not invasive.
Origin: Northern Mediterranean area, Pannonian area, Western Central Asia.
Coix lacryma-jobi
N (7459/4: Essl 2003); O (7448/3: Hohla 2018); TN; VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral (both records from Austria not really spontaneous, as
short-distance garden escapes), not invasive.
Origin: Southeastern Asia.
Cortaderia selloana
Ornamental grass, dioecious, mainly females vegetatively breeded (Jelitto & al. 2002),
but also cultivated and distributed as seedlings, so spontaneous growth of feral plants is
possible, in the Mediterranean area locally invasive (B. Knickmann & M. Münch, pers.
comm.).
BS (0027/2); TN; VR
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Temperate South America.
Cynodon dactylon (Panicum lineare L., non Krock.)
B; W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998, Hohla 2012a); ST; S (8344/4: Hohla & Melzer 2003,
Pilsl & al. 2008); NT (already in Murr 1931); OT (Stöhr & Brandes 2014); V
[–]; FL; GRB; CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO (Jogan
2014)
Perennial, in Eastern Austria as an archaeophyte, otherwise neophytic, established to
naturalized, potentially invasive. Mainly introduced with seed material.
Origin: subtropical Africa and Asia, extending to the Mediterranean area and to Central
Asia.
Cynosurus echinatus
W [–]; N; O; ST (Melzer 1954); K; S [–] (Pilsl & al. 2008); T [–] (already in Murr
1931); BAV (8237/2); GRB; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; UD
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Annual neophyte, ephemeral or established, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Dasypyrum villosum (Haynaldia villosa)
W; ST (Melzer 1954); K; BG; BS; BZ (Kiem 1983); TN; VR (first recorded by
Pollini 1822: 93, sub nom. Secale villosum, recently observed in several places);
BL; UD
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean area, Balkans, Pontic area, Caucasus.
Desmazeria rigida → Catapodium rigidum
Dichanthelium acuminatum (Panicum acuminatum)
V (delta of river Rhine, degraded areas, observed since 2008: Aschauer & Grabher
2017)
Perennial neophyte, locally naturalized, locally highly invasive.
Origin: North and Central America.
Digitaria ciliaris
In historical records, D. sanguinalis subsp. pectiniformis was occasionally named as
D. ciliaris (Wilhalm 2001).
ST; K; S (City of Salzburg: Fischer 1946, Vigaun, 8344/2, confirm. T. Wilhalm:
Pflugbeil & al. 2017); BS; BZ (Wilhalm 2001); TN; VR; BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Africa, Southeastern Asia.
Digitaria filiformis
NT (Murr 1931, doubtful: no informative description, no herbarium sheet cited)
Generally, historical records of D. filiformis are doubtful, as confusion with
D. ischaemum frequently occurred. For that reason, some records are excluded here.
In Neilreich (1859: 33) for example, the description clearly refers to D. ischaemum.
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Southern North America, Central Andes mountains.
Digitaria ischaemum (Panicum lineare Krock., non L.)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; BAV (8527/2, Altstädten, railway station: Dörr & Lippert
2001); GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, persistent, regionally invasive. Mainly occurring in maize fields, but also in
rural surroundings and along country lanes (Wilhalm 2001).
Origin: Southern Europe, Central and Southeastern Asia.
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Digitaria sanguinalis subsp. sanguinalis
B; W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST; K; S; T; V; FL; BAV (8138/4); BG; BS; BZ; TN;
VR; BL; VI; PO; UD; SLO
Annual neophyte, established, locally invasive. Mainly occurring in maize fields.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Central and Southeastern Asia.
Digitaria sanguinalis subsp. pectiniformis
Possible confusion with Digitaria ciliaris in historical records (Wilhalm 2001).
B; W; N; O (herbarium specimen by M. Hohla, rev. T. Wilhalm, Hohla & al. 2009),
Stöhr & al. 2012, Hohla 2016); ST; K; S (Stöhr & al. 2012); NT (Smettan 2012);
OT (Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015); V; BZ; TN; VR; BL; SLO (9856/3: Jogan
2014)
Annual neophyte, locally persistent or established, locally invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Central and Southeastern Asia.
Digitaria setigera
O (7744/4, det. H. Scholz: Hohla 2011a)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral (not really spontaneous), not invasive. Status similar to a
relative, D. radicosa, newly discovered in Corse (Verloove 2008).
Origin: East Africa, Southern Asia.
Digitaria violascens
For differentiation between D. ischaemum and D. violascens see Verloove (2008).
BG (0525/1, det. F. Verloove: Martini & al. 2012); BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Southern Asia.
Dinebra retroflexa
TN [–] (Trento, only some time after the Second World War: Dalla Fior 1955)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Africa, Middle East, India.
Echinochloa colona
Wild relative of E. frumentacea (Yamaguchi & al. 2005).
W; ST (Melzer 1961); K; BAV (only one single record in the Allgäu region: 8427/4:
Dörr & Lippert 2001) and along their southern fringe, but not inside of the Alps
(G. Galasso, pers. comm.)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Africa, Southern Asia.
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Echinochloa crus-galli
Wild relative of E. esculenta (Yamaguchi & al. 2005, incl. subsp. spiralis and var. submutica).
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S (Hohla & Melzer 2003: subsp. spiralis); T; V; BAV; GRB;
CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; VI; PO; UD; SLO
Annual. Archaeophytic, persistent to naturalized (possibly indigenous at the southern
fringe of the Alps), locally invasive. Mainly occurring in maize fields.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Southern Africa, Central and Southern Asia.
Echinochloa esculenta (E. utilis)
Formerly confused with E. frumentacea by some Japanese authors, see Ohwi 1962).
Cultivated relative of E. crus-galli.
W (Melzer & Barta 1999); N; O (Hohla 2001); ST; K (Melzer 1989); S (Schröck
& al. 2004, Pilsl & al. 2008)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive. Mainly distributed with bird
seed (Melzer 1985).
Originally cultivated in Southeastern Asia.
Echinochloa frumentacea (cultivated relative of E. colona)
W (Melzer & Barta 1999); O (Hohla 2000); ST; K (9352/3: Melzer 1989); S
(Schröck & al. 2004, Pilsl & al. 2008); NT; V; BAV (sparsely recorded in the
Allgäu region: 8427/4, 8527/4: Dörr & Lippert 2001); BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2006)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive. Mainly distributed with bird
seed.
Originally cultivated in India.
Echinochloa muricata
Wiegand (1921) described several varieties, especially var. microstachya, here all included in E. muricata.
O (8150/2: Hohla & al. 1998, Hohla 2001, 2002); ST (Melzer 1996c); S (Pilsl & al.
2008)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to to persistent, potentially invasive.
Origin: North America.
Echinochloa oryzoides
S [–] (Fritsch 1891. No more observations). Presumably outside of the Alps, along their
southern fringe (G. Galasso, pers. comm.).
Its occurrence was marked as doubtful in Pflugbeil & Pilsl (2013), but Fritsch
(1891) clearly differentiates between Echinochloa crus-galli and E. oryzoides, the
latter with a synonym: “Panicum crus-galli var. aristatum auct.”, meaning a common use by various authors, but not Pursh; Panicum crus-galli var. aristatum Pursh
is quoted as conspecific with E. crus-galli (s. str.). A local, spontaneous and ephem-
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eral occurrence is possible, as several cultivars of Echinochloa species, among them
E. oryzoides, were historically cultivated in the surroundings.
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central and Southeast Asia.
Annotation: Echinochloa hispidula, sometimes improperly treated as a synonym of
E. oryzoides and of the same origin, is presumably found outside of the Alps, along their
southern fringe (G. Galasso, pers. comm.). For differential characteristics see Costea
& Tardif (2002).
Echinochloa turneriana
O (7847/1, det. H. Scholz, Hohla 2011a).
Annual neophyte, ephemeral (seems to be a single occurrence from seed introduced
with goods transportation), not invasive.
Origin: Australia.
Eleusine indica
W, N; ST (9260/4, Mureck: Melzer 2000; Andritz, 2017: obs. S. Leonhartsberger); CO;
SO (Val Bregaglia: Borgonuovo di Piúro, 440 msm, T. Wilhalm & P. Englmaier
pers. obs., 2017); BG; BS; BZ (Kiem 1974 as rapidly spreading); TN (Prosser &
Bertolli 2015); VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO (9954/2: Jogan 2012)
Subsp. africana is evident in N by a single herbarium specimen from Mannswörth,
7864/4, 12. 10. 1969, leg. W. Forstner, W: Wallnöfer 2014)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to established, regionally invasive.
Origin: Africa, Middle East, Southern Asia.
Eleusine tristachya
W (7763/4, 4. 8. 1983, leg. M. Strudl, W: Wallnöfer 2014); ST (Graz: Melzer 1983,
still present there, at Franziskanerplatz, 8958/2, leg. & det. M. Hohla, 2014, LI
01313185)
Short-living perennial neophyte (sometimes first flowering in the year of germination),
ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: South America.
Elymus athericus (Elytrigia atherica)
N; O (Hohla 2002); K (Melzer 1994, herbarium H. Melzer/ LI); NT; BS; BZ; TN;
VR; BL; PO; UD
Hohla & Scholz (2011) verified records from Austrian federal states and from the
province of Bolzano.
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western European and Mediterranean coastlines, Asia minor, Middle East.
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Elymus canadensis
O (only one single observation: Linz, Ruderalboden, 1894, leg. J. Murr, det. E. Hackel,
confirm. H. Scholz 2009, LI: Murr 1894)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: North America.
Elymus elongatus subsp. ponticus (E. obtusiflorus, E. ponticus)
Although the taxonomy of the whole Elymus-Elytrigia-complex is unclear (see MasonGamer 2013) and no data on molecular genetics of these taxa are available, a species
rank for both E. elongatus and E. obtusiflorus (as in Euro+Med plantBase, Valdés &
Scholz 2006) is not supported. In most other databases, they are merged into only one
taxon. Thus, E. obtusiflorus is treated here on subspecies rank, annotating this group
for further investigations.
B (Hohla & al. 2015); W; N (Diran 2016 sub nom. E. obtusiflorus, tries to distinguish between E. obtusiflorus and E. elongatus, no herbarium specimen available);
O (Hohla 2011a, Hohla & al. 2015); K; BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2003); TN (Bertolli
& Prosser 2014 sub nom. Elytrigia obtusiflora); UD
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean, Pannonian and Pontic area, Middle East, Western Central Asia.
Elymus hystrix (Hystrix patula, Hordeum hystrix (L.) Schenck, nom. illeg., non Roth)
O (Hohla 2014)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern and Central North America.
Eragrostis
Eragrostis, with one crop species (E. tef ) and many closely related, similar and confusable taxa, is a rather complicated genus. Due to the lack of reliable characteristics, some
micromorphological details were already considered and may be of increasing interest
(e.g. Giraldo Cañas & al. 2012, Wróbel & al. 2017). Several determinations, especially
of rare and newly recognized species, even if performed by specialists, are doubtful and
need a critical re-examination. This genus needs a comprehensive and critical revision.
Eragrostis albensis (repeatedly treated as a synonym of E. pilosa)
First recognized from shores of rivers Elbe and Oder (Scholz 1995). First actually
known evidence in Europe from Warsaw, 1947 (Scholz & Ristow 2005).
W (Diran 2016, Hohla & al. 2016); O (7755/3, det. H. Scholz, Hohla & Kleesadl
2006); K (Stöhr & Brandes 2014); S (Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013); NT (Pagitz
2012, but this population may possibly be identical with E. amurensis, as reported
by Hohla 2013); OT (Stöhr & Brandes 2014)
Annual. Ephemeral to persistent. Not invasive in the territory, but estimated as regionally invasive in the Polish Carpathians (Zając & al. 2011).
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Origin, time and pathway of introduction unknown. Possibly conspecific with E. imberbis from the Russian Far East, meanwhile well-established as an alien in European
Russia (Seregin 2012).
Eragrostis amurensis (incl. E. voronensis)
O (7744/1 and 7744/2, confirm. F. Verloove: Hohla 2013)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive at present.
Origin: Temperate Asia, seems to be rapidly spreading to Eastern Europe.
Eragrostis barrelieri
BS; BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2014); TN; VR; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Mediterranean area, North Africa, Asia minor, Middle East.
Eragrostis cilianensis (E. megastachya)
B; W; N; ST (Melzer 1954, 1959: 84); K; NT [–] (Pagitz 2012); V [?] (a record in
Fischer & al. 2008 could not be verified); CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ (decreasing: Kiem
1974 considered it as lost, but some stands remained: Wilhalm 2001); TN; VR; UD
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, locally invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Africa, Central and Southern Asia.
Eragrostis curvula
W; BZ
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to established, not invasive.
Origin: Southern Africa.
Eragrostis frankii
NT (Pagitz 2012); BS; BZ [?] (determination by H. Scholz may be doubtful); TN (Bertolli & Prosser 2014); BL; PO; UD (Melzer 1988); SLO (Melzer 1988, 1996b)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern North America (Koch 1974).
Eragrostis mexicana (incl. E. neomexicana)
ST, as Nr. 194 in Melzer (1954: 116), with the only additional information “Bahnhof Puntigam, 1949”. Hohla (2006a) argued for confusion with E. pectinacea, citing a specimen of undoubted E. pectinacea from the same locality (leg. W. Burri,
14. 8. 1949, LI), but Melzer himself (1959: 84) had revised his determination to
E. diffusa (see E. pectinacea), together with a new record of E. mexicana (sub nom.
E. neomexicana) from Graz (Melzer 1959).
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central and South America, scattered in southern North America.
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Eragrostis minor (E. poaeoides)
B; W; N; O; ST (leg. Heinrich, in Fritsch 1923); K; S (Reiter 1952, Schröck & al.
2004); NT (Pagitz 2012); OT; V; FL; BAV; GRB; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN;
VR; VI; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, persistent to established, regionally invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Central and South Asia, scattered in Northern and Eastern
Africa.
Eragrostis multicaulis (E. damiensiana, E. peregrina)
W (Hohla 2013); N (Hohla 2006a); O (7647/4, Hohla 2006b); ST (Melzer 1954, 1959:
84, 8958/2: Melzer 1989); K (Melzer 1999: 26); S (8444/2: Hohla & Melzer
2003, Schröck & al. 2004, both partially confused with E. pilosa, see Pilsl & al.
2008, Pilsl & Pflugbeil 2012, Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013; Wittmann & Pflugbeil
2017); NT (Pagitz 2012); OT (Stöhr & al. 2012); V (Hohla 2014); BAV; BZ; TN
(Prosser 1999); BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to established, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
Eragrostis pectinacea (incl. E. diffusa and E. tephrosanthos)
ST (herbarium specimen from railway station Puntigam, 1949, leg. Burri, LI: Hohla
2006a); BG; BS; BZ; TN (Prosser & Bertolli 2015); VR; BL; PO; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to established, locally invasive.
Origin: North, Central and northern South America.
Eragrostis diffusa is repeatedly treated as a synonym of E. pectinacea, e.g. by Koch
1974 and Giraldo Cañas & al. 2012). It is only reported from Styria (Melzer 1959).
E. pectinacea is verified from the same localities (Hohla 2006a, see E. mexicana
entry).
Eragrostis tephrosanthos (E. delicatula, E. pectinacea var. miserrima), a close relative
to E. pectinacea of unclear rank, with the only difference of divaricate lateral pedicels
(while E. pectinacea should have adpressed lateral pedicels, Koch 1974, Portal &
Duhem 2002) was additionally reported from BZ (Moritzing, near Bolzano, 9433/4, 2.
9. 2001 leg. T. Wilhalm, BOZ , det. H. Scholz: Wilhalm & al. 2003).
Eragrostis pilosa
Wild relative of the East African crop Eragrostis tef and sometimes confused with it
(Ingram & Doyle 2003, 2007).
B; W; N; O (Hohla 2000, 2011b, Hohla & al. 2005a); ST (leg. Heinrich, in Fritsch
1923); K; S (Eichberger & al. 2016); NT [–] (Pagitz 2012); OT (Pagitz 2012); V
(Hohla 2014); GRB; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD
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Markedly decreasing: Fritsch (1922: 660) still named all Austrian federal states
except Salzburg, later on not found until – sparsely – in recent times (Hohla 2006a).
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to persistent, locally invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Africa, Central and South Asia.
Eragrostis planiculmis
O (7645/4: Hohla & al. 2015)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral (not really spontaneous), not invasive.
Origin: South Africa.
Eragrostis tef
BAV [–] (8527/2: (Dörr & Lippert 2001)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral (not really spontaneous), not invasive. Occasionally introduced at roadsides with seed mixtures. Occurrences already expected by Hohla
(2003), but no further records available within the territory.
Origin: Eastern Africa (cultivated as a crop in Ethiopia), indigenous probably also in the
south of the Arabian peninsula.
Eragrostis trichodes
Distributed as an ornamental grass under several misleading names, e.g. “Eragrostis
splendens” (see Hohla 2006a). Confused with E. spectabilis, also originating from
North America and occasionally cultivated for ornamental gardening.
O (Hohla 2006a, b, Hohla & al. 2009); S [–] (1941, det. K. Ronninger & H. Gams:
Fischer 1946, Leeder & Reiter 1959, a single record, no other evidence, see
Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: North America.
Eragrostis virescens (E. mexicana subsp. virescens)
W (Gilli & al. 2018); O (Hohla & Kleesadl 2006, Hohla & al. 2015); ST (Melzer
1959); BS (Martini & Scholz 1998); BZ (Martini & Scholz 1998); TN; VR;
BL; PO (Martini & Scholz 1998); UD (Martini & Scholz 1998)
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Western North America, South America.
Festuca
The splitting of the large genus Festuca, especially its broad-leaved part into several
genera as proposed by Soreng & al. (2015) is neither supported by cited data (p. 131)
nor by available additional data, e.g. in Catalán & al. (2007), de Nova & al. (2006),
Cheng & al. (2016). Festuca s. latiss., including mainly Vulpia and Lolium was demonstrated to be monophyletic in all these studies. The only reasonable and well-balanced
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split would be into two genera, following the main subclades, where the entire “broadleaved” subclade needs to be named Lolium. As this requires a fundamental nomenclatural setup exceeding that of Darbyshire (1993), Festuca is provisorily left here in the
sense of Fischer & al. 2008 to retain usability, but including Vulpia and others, with
Lolium treated separately.
Annotation: Hohla (2011a) recorded Festuca apennina (F. pratensis subsp. apennina,
Lolium pratense subsp. apenninum) from Upper Austrian lowlands (Innviertel) near St.
Peter am Hart, 7744/2, det. H. Scholz. As several F. pratensis cultivars used for grassland amelioration may be occasionally awned, this single record is highly doubtful and
may refer to such a feral F. pratensis-cultivar.
Festuca arundinacea subsp. fenas
BZ (herbarium sheet “Nals”, 2003, leg. T. Wilhalm, BOZ , Wilhalm & al. 2014)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Festuca arundinacea subsp. mediterranea
O (Hohla 2011a, subg. Schedonorus, det. H. Scholz)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Festuca arundinacea subsp. uechtritziana
B; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998, Hohla 2006b); ST (Melzer 1992); K; S (Pflugbeil &
Pilsl 2013); BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2014)
Introduced with seed mixtures and subsequently spread, e.g. along roadsides.
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: probably Western Mediterranean area (Hackel 1882). Conert (1998) argues for
Southern France.
Annotation: Scattered indigenous populations of Festuca brevipila (s. lat.) are mainly
known from the Bohemian Massif in Austria and from the Central Alps (Arndt,
Wilhalm & Englmaier, unpublished data). Nearly all other stands are derived from
seeds of various commercially distributed cultivars used in landscaping (Englmaier
2009), frequently traded as “Festuca duriuscula”. They are found on recultivated areas
with disturbed soils, especially on roadsides (e.g. Hohla 2006b). Subsequently spread
by machinery and tools, probably even by hikers on their shoes, this species is meanwhile distributed anywhere and, especially in Austria, rapidly spreading: in lowlands
(e.g. Burgenland, Eisenberg, roadsides at wine cellars, 385 msm, 2017, hb. P. Englmaier) as well as in alpine regions (e.g. Carinthia, southeastern slope of Mauthner Alm,
near Enzian hütte, 1550 msm, obs. P. Englmaier, 2017, far away from public roads). Also
spreading in the Southern Alps (first finding in BZ by Kiem 1983). These cultivars
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are to be quoted as highly invasive, spreading themselves as well as anthropogenously
distributed.
Festuca bromoides (Vulpia bromoides)
B; N; ST (Melzer 1954, Sengl 2015); T [–]; V (8424/3: Dörr 1992); GRB; PO
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the eastern fringe of the Alps, but nowadays rare
due to habitat loss, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Europe, Mediterranean area, including Northern Africa, East Africa.
Festuca danthonii (Vulpia ciliata, F. ciliata Danthoin ex DC, nom. illeg., non Gouan,
non Link)
W; N (Reich & al. 2018a); S (Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017, Reich & al. 2018a); GRB;
CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR (Kiem 1983); PO; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Annotation: Festuca filiformis (F. tenuifolia), indigenous in most of the territory, occasionally adventive in wasteland (e.g. Hohla & al. 2005a, even in Vienna: Melzer &
Barta 2008). In BZ known as distributed with seed mixtures in landscaping, especially
along forestry roads (T. Wilhalm, pers. obs.).
Festuca geniculata (Vulpia geniculata)
BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, extending to Northern Africa.
Annotation: Festuca heteromalla (F. diffusa), remarkable due to its tall growth and its
many-flowered spikelets, indigenous in mountain regions but also appearing in (slightly
humid) wastelands, such as landslides or various embankments as a local neophyte (e.g.
Melzer 1996c, 1998, 2000, even in Vienna: Melzer & Barta 2008). Confusion is
possible with tall grown F. rubra-cultivars and should be considered in any wasteland
stands.
Festuca incurva (Psilurus incurvus, Nardus aristatus)
BG (Avogadri 1995); TN (9932/4: Prosser1999); VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Annotation: Festuca lachenalii (Micropyrum tenellum, Nardurus halleri, “Festuca
tenella”), was erroneously recorded from Upper Austria, meaning Festuca myuros (see
Hohla & al. 2009: 246 sub nom. Micropyrum tenellum).
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Festuca ligustica (Vulpia ligustica)
BZ [–] (9534/1: Kiem 1978) TN; VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central Mediterranean area, Northern Africa, Asia minor.
Festuca maritima (Vulpia unilateralis, Triticum unilaterale, non F. maritima var.
loliacea = Cutandia maritima)
TN; VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Western Mediterranean area, Balkans, Asia minor, Western
Central Asia, Middle East.
Festuca myuros (Vulpia myuros)
B; W; N (Melzer & Barta 1999); O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST (Melzer 1954, 1989,
1995, 1996c); K (9246/2: Melzer 1996a, 9155/1: Melzer 1998); S (Pilsl & al.
2008, Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017); NT (Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015); V
(8424/3, 8524/1: Dörr & Lippert 2001); FL; GRB; CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ;
TN; VR; VI; BL; PO; UD; SLO (Jogan 2012, 2014)
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the eastern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East, extending to India.
Annotation: Festuca nigrescens, indigenous and widespread in montaneous to subalpine grasslands in the Alps, rapidly distributed with deforestation and grassland establishment also in lowlands, bred in numerous cultivars and mainly used for grassland
amelioration and landscaping (Englmaier 2009). Nowadays neophytic everywhere outside natural montane grassland.
Festuca pseudovina → Festuca valesiaca subsp. parviflora
Festuca pulchra → Festuca valesiaca subsp. parviflora
Annotation: Festuca rubra subsp. juncea, indigenous, sporadically found on alluvial
soils, but also on wasteland, railway tracks and roadsides as a local neophyte (Melzer
1996c, Melzer & Barta 1994, Hohla & al. 1998, Niklfeld 2003, Hohla & Melzer
2003, Melzer & Barta 2008). Observations on pastures in the upper Veltlin valley
(SO, Parolo & Foggi ined.) may be based on confusions with similar, rigid F. rubra cultivars, occasionally distributed with seed mixtures for grassland amelioration.
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Festuca rubra subsp. litoralis
Numerous cultivars are marketed, mainly under the misused name “F. rubra trichophylla”, used for golf greens, sport and play lawns (Englmaier 2009: 67). Slightly salt
tolerant, thus expected above all along salt-treated roads.
N (Riegersburg, hb. P. Englmaier, 2015: Englmaier 2018)
Perennial neophyte, persistent. Absolutely no data available on its possible invasiveness.
Highly confusable with any native Festuca rubra, mainly with small-grown F. nigrescens, so possibly overseen and thus undiscovered up to now.
Origin: European coastlines.
Annotation: Festuca valesiaca subsp. parviflora (F. pseudovina, ?F. pulchra), indigenous in the Pannonian lowlands, extending to Central Asia, but easily spread by traffic,
thus a local neophyte along roads and railways. (N: rural roadside at Rosenthal, Heufurth, near Hardegg, 2012, hb. P. Englmaier, O: Linzer Hafen, 2004, leg. G. Kleesadl,
LI: Hohla & al. 2009; Wels, railway track, 7850/1: Hohla & al. 2005a; Mining, 7745/1:
Hohla 2012a; S: Puch: Reiter 1952, det. I. Markgraf-Dannenberg, Leeder & Reiter
1959; BZ: Bolzano, railway station: Wilhalm & al. 2007). Easily hybridizing with
Festuca valesiaca subsp. valesiaca, resulting in hybrid swarms with much better fitness
on wasteland as any of the parent species, thus readily distributed along roadsides, in
wasteland and in dry grassland (numerous obs. P. Englmaier, 2017 in N; B; ST). In most
cases, these hybrids are of intermediate shape between F. pseudovina and F. valesiaca,
thus frequently confused with any of them. Locally invasive.
Gastridium ventricosum (G. lendigerum)
ST (Melzer 1954); CO [–] (only historical records)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Gaudinia fragilis
The genus Gaudinia is placed in close proximity to Koeleria (Saarela & al. 2017, Wölk
& Röser 2017), but can be left separately.
ST (Melzer 1954); BS (Desenzano, 0529/1: Giacomini 1950) TN; VR; BL; VI
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Glyceria grandis
O (Hohla 2012b, Kleesadl 2017); S (Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013, Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017); BL (Mareson in Val di Zoldo, leg C. Argenti: Portal 2014)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, potentially invasive, poisonous (has been known to
cause cyanide poisoning in cattle, like G. striata: Puls & al. 1978).
Origin: North America.
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Glyceria striata subsp. striata
O; ST; K (9355/1: Jogan 1997; Melzer 1998); S (8244/4: Schröck & al. 2004, Stöhr
& al. 2012, Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017); T; V; BAV; GRB; BZ (Wilhalm & al.
2008); TN (9832/4: Prosser 1999); BL; SLO (9953/3, 9954/2: Jogan 1997, 2012)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral to naturalized, potentially invasive.
Origin: North America.
Glyceria striata subsp. difformis
Newly described by Portal (2014). Differs from subsp. striata in habitus and has spikelets with fewer florets and markedly smaller lemmas. Hohla (2018) gives a list of identifications by R. Portal and a new record from Upper Austria:
O; ST; S
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, potentially invasive.
Origin: North America.
Heteropogon contortus
CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ (Kiem 1978); TN; VR; VI
Perennial. Indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Western Mediterranean area, Africa, Southern Asia.
Hordelymus europaeus
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; NT; V; FL; BAV, GRB; TN; VR; BL; SLO
Perennial. Indigenous in most of Europe and the Alps, regionally naturalized at the
southern fringe of the Alps, not invasive.
Origin: Europe, Western Mediterranean area, Asia minor, Caucasus.
Hordeum
Hordeum consists of four distinct genomic groups (see El-Rabey & al. 2002): (1)
the barley group, including H. vulgare subsp. spontaneum, its cultivated relatives
H. vulgare subsp. vulgare and subsp. distichon, and the most isolated H. bulbosum;
(2) H. murinum with its subsp. murinum, subsp. leporinum and subsp. glaucum; (3)
H. marinum (and its allotetraploid relative, H. secalinum) and (4) a heterogenous Eastern Asian–American group containinig diploids and polyploids, H. jubatum among
the latter.
Hordeum bulbosum
Wild relative of H. vulgare.
TN; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
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Hordeum jubatum
B; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST (Melzer 1954, 1985, 1987, 1995); K; S (Hohla &
Melzer 2003, Schröck & al. 2004); T (8530/1, 8728/1: Dörr & Lippert 2001); V
(Feldkirch, railway station: Polatschek & Neuner 2013); BAV (8427/4: Dörr &
Lippert 2001); BZ; BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia, North America.
Hordeum marinum subsp. marinum (H. maritimum With., non Roth,
non O. F. Müll.)
ST (Melzer 1954); K; BZ [–] (Pfaff 1923); TN
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Mediterranean area, Pontic area, Middle East.
Hordeum marinum subsp. gussoneanum (H. geniculatum, H. hystrix Roth,
non (L.) Schenck)
B [–] (former occurrences in Seewinkel probably indigenous, Fischer & al. 2008); W
[–]; N[–]; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Hordeum murinum subsp. murinum
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; NT; OT (Stöhr 2007); V; FL; BAV; GRB; CO; LC; SO;
BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Indigenous in Europe, naturalized in Alpine valleys as a regional neophyte, naturalized,
locally invasive.
Origin: Europe, Northern Africa, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Hordeum murinum subsp. glaucum (H. glaucum)
BS (0427/3)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Northern Africa, Asia minor, Caucasus, Middle East.
Hordeum murinum subsp. leporinum (H. leporinum)
ST (Melzer 1989); S (Pilsl & Pflugbeil 2012); GRB; CO (doubtful: M. Kleih, pers.
comm.); BZ; TN; VR; UD
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to established, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
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Hordeum secalinum
S (Pilsl & al. 2008); T; BZ [–] (Kiem 1978)
Annual. Indigenous in Europe, ephemeral in Alpine valleys as a regional neophyte, not
invasive.
Origin: Europe, extending to North Africa.
Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare
Cultivated crop, occasionally used for intercropping and erosion control, thus allowing
spontaneous growth of feral plants.
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; SLO
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Originally cultivated in the Middle East.
Hordeum vulgare subsp. distichon (H. distichon)
Cultivated crop, especially for brewery. Occasionally used for intercropping and erosion
control, thus allowing spontaneous growth of feral plants.
W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST; K; S (Pilsl & al. 2008); V [–] (only historical records); GRB [–] (only historical records); BZ; TN; VR; SLO
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Originally cultivated in the Middle East.
Kengia → Cleistogenes
Koeleria glauca
N; S (Pflugbeil 2015)
Perennial. Indigenous in Eastern Austria, regionally neophytic, introduced as seed impurities, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Europe, Central Asia.
Lagurus ovatus
W (since 1890: Conert 1998); ST; K; V (8425/4: Dörr & Lippert 2001); BG; TN;
VR; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Leersia oryzoides (Oryza clandestina, Oryza oryzoides)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S (Stöhr & al. 2012); NT (already in Murr 1931, recently obs.
2016 by O. Stöhr); V; BAV (Dörr & Lippert 2001); GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VE;
BL; PO; UD; SLO
Perennial. Indigenous, regionally neophytic, established to naturalized, not invasive.
Whereas frequently stated in Dalla Torre & Sarnthein (1906), Kiem (1974) considered it already as extinct around Bolzano, but nowadays spreading again (recently
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at Montan-Castelfeder, around a pond: T. Wilhalm & P. Englmaier, 2016, BOZ and
hb. P. Englmaier).
Origin: Europe, Western Asia, (Eastern Asia, North America).
Leymus arenarius
Frequently used as an ornamental grass.
O (Kleesadl & Brandstätter 2013); ST (Graz, 2017, local, subspontaneous appearance as a garden escape: S. Leonhartsberger, pers. obs.)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: European Atlantic coasts.
Lolium multiflorum (incl. subsp. gaudinii)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; BS; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual or short-living perennial neophyte, naturalized, introduced in early times and
thus present in historical floras (Rota 1853 and Zersi 1871 from BS), potentially
invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East, Western Central Asia.
Lolium remotum
Probably extinct almost in the whole territory.
B [–]; W [–]; N [–]; O [–]; ST [–]; K [–]; S [–]; T [–]; V [–]; BAV [–] (8427/4: Dörr &
Lippert 2001); GRB [–]; BZ [–]; UD
Annual archaeophyte (introduced mainly with flax cultivation), ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Northwestern India, Pakistan (e-monocot: http://e-monocot.org/taxon/urn:kew.
org:wcs:taxon:422871 and comprehensive citations therein).
Lolium rigidum subsp. rigidum (L. strictum, L. subulatum Vis., non Degen ex Lojac.)
ST (Melzer 1954); K; T (Pagitz & al. 2006, no herbarium specimen available); BAV
(8427/4: Dörr & Lippert 2001); GRB [–]; LC; BS; BZ; VR [–]
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Northern Africa, Crimea, Caucasus, Middle East, Eastern
Asia.
Lolium rigidum subsp. lepturoides (L. loliaceum (Bory & Chab.) Hand.-Mazz., non Festulolium loliaceum (Huds.) P. Fournier, species rank not supported: Mirjalili & al. 2008)
ST (Melzer 1954)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: probably Middle East.
Lolium temulentum
W [–]; N [–]; O (7551/4, Kleesadl 2009); ST [–] (Melzer 1954) K [–]; S [–]; T [–];
V (Lochau-Hörbranz, 8424/3: 1989, obs. E. Sutter: Dörr & Lippert 2001); BAV
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(8427/4, 8428/3, 8527/2); GRB [–]; CO; LC; BS; BZ; TN [–]; VR [–]; BL [–];
UD
Annual archaeo- and neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Asia, Middle East,
extending to India.
Lophochloa cristata → Trisetaria cristata
Melica altissima
W (7764/3: Essl & Stöhr 2006, Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof in Vienna: 2017, obs. P. Englmaier); O (Zahlheimer in Hohla 2003); ST (Kniely 2015, as var. atropurpurea)
Perennial. Indigenous in Northern Austria (Thaya valley near Hardegg), but sometimes
cultivated as an ornamental grass with local, spontaneously growing populations as
garden escapes, then neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Europe (typical in forest-steppe communities in the eastern part of the
Pannonian area), Middle East, temperate Asia.
Annotation: Mibora minima, recorded from SO (Aeschimann & al. 2004) is neither
cited with its original reference nor confirmed elsewhere and thus highly doubtful.
Micropyrum tenellum → Festuca lachenalii
Miscanthus sacchariflorus
N (Melzer & Barta 1999); O (Hohla 2001, 2002, 2006c, 2011b, Hohla & al. 2005a);
ST (Graz, 2017: obs. S. Leonhartsberger); K (Melzer 1994); S (Schröck & al.
2004); FL
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
Miscanthus sinensis
Cultivated as an ornamental plant, but astonishingly rare as a neophyte in the territory. In
North America it is quoted as a highly invasive weed (Swearingen & Bargeron 2016).
O (7646/3: Hohla 2000); ST (Graz, 2017: obs. S. Leonhartsberger); S (8947/2: Stöhr
& al. 2006); BZ (recent occurrence in St. Jakob, Leifers, near Bolzano, 2017, hb.
P. Englmaier).
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
Muhlenbergia frondosa
TN (9933/3: Bertolli & Prosser 2014, see also Verloove & Ardenghi 2015)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern and Central North America.
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Muhlenbergia mexicana
W (Gilli 2016b); O (7844/2: Hohla 2011a, 7843/1: Hohla 2012a, confirm. F. Verloove); S [–] (8143/4: Stöhr & al. 2009, Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: North America.
Muhlenbergia schreberi
CO; SO; BZ; TN (0131/1: Bertolli & Prosser 2014); VR; BL; PO; SLO (9954/2:
Jogan 2012)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Temperate North and South America.
Nassella tenuissima (Stipa tenuissima)
Nomenclature: Barkworth (1990).
B (Knickmann & al. 2018); W (Knickmann & al. 2018); N (Knickmann & al. 2018);
S (Pflugbeil 2015); BZ (Wilhalm & al. 2017)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive in the territory, but high invasive potential
(as known from Australia: McLaren & al. 2004).
Origin: Central and South America.
Oloptum
The genus was introduced by Röser in Hamasha & al. (2012) for the isolated and
well-circumscribed “miliacea-group” of Piptatherum (Romaschenko & al. 2012), with
the generic type Agrostis miliacea ≡ Oloptum miliaceum.
Oloptum miliaceum (Oryzopsis miliacea, Achnatherum miliaceum, Piptatherum
miliaceum)
W; K; CO; BG; BS; TN; VR
Perennial. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Oplismenus undulatifolius (O. hirtellus subsp. undulatifolius)
CO; LC; SO; BG; BS [–] (Kiem 1978); BZ (Kiem 1974, 1983); TN (Prosser 1999);
VI; PO; UD; SLO (Dakskobler 2013)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Asia Minor, Caucasus, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia.
Oryzopsis miliacea → Oloptum miliaceum
Oryzopsis virescens → Piptatherum virescens
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Panicum
Besides one crop species, P. miliaceum, this genus comprises some closely related, similar and confusable taxa. Some neophytic species from the most complex North American Panicum capillare group were recorded from the territory, giving rise to confusion.
Amarell (2013), Amarell & al. (2014) and Király & Alegro (2015) tried to clarify
this group and give some reliable distinctive characteristics between P. capillare and
P. barbipulvinatum. Following the solid arguments of Amarell (2013), the supposed
“neoendemic” P. riparium (Scholz 2002a) is treated as a synonym of P. barbipulvinatum. In general, nomenclature follows Verloove (2001), with P. barbipulvinatum as a
subspecies of P. capillare.
Panicum capillare subsp. capillare
B; W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998); ST; K; S; T; V; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; BL
Records of P. capillare (s. lat.) are available from TN; VR; PO; UD and SLO (Jogan
2014).
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to established, regionally invasive.
Origin: North America.
Panicum capillare subsp. barbipulvinatum (P. barbipulvinatum, P. capillare var.
occidentale, P. riparium)
In Europe it is readily distinguishable from P. capillare subsp. capillare (Amarell 2013,
see also Verloove & Ardenghi 2015), but in North America its status is in debate (in
many cases merged with P. capillare), therefore it is treated here on subspecies rank.
B (Raabe & Király 2015 sub nom. P. riparium); W (Hohla & al. 2015); N (Melzer
& Barta 2008 sub nom. P. riparium; Hohla & al. 2015); O (Hohla & al. 1998 sub
nom. var. occidentale; Hohla 2006c sub nom. P. riparium, det. H. Scholz; Stöhr
& al. 2007 sub nom. P. riparium; Hohla & al. 2009 sub nom. P. riparium; Hohla
2013); ST (Hohla & al. 2015); K (Hohla & al. 2015); S (Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013
sub nom. P. riparium); NT (Pagitz 2012); V (Hohla 2014); BZ; TN (Wilhalm
2011); BL; SLO (9853/2, 9854/1: Mihorič 2015 sub nom. P. riparium)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, potentially invasive.
Origin: North America.
Panicum dichotomiflorum
B; O (7647/1: Hohla & al. 1998, Kleesadl 2009); ST (Melzer 1954, 1987); K; S
(Hohla & Melzer 2003, Pflugbeil & al. 2017); NT (Smettan 2012); V; FL;
GRB (historical records around Sargans); CO (M. Kleih, pers. obs.); BG; BS; BZ;
TN (Prosser 1993, Prosser & Bertolli 2015); VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO (Jogan
2014)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, regionally invasive.
Origin: North and South America.
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Panicum hillmanii
B; W; N; O (Hohla & al. 1998, Kleesadl 2009); ST (Melzer 1995); K; S (8545/3:
Hohla & Melzer 2003)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Southwestern North America.
Panicum miliaceum subsp. miliaceum
W; N; O; ST; K; S; NT (Dörr & Lippert 2001); V; BAV (Dörr & Lippert 2001);
TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual archaeophyte, as a crop, ephemeral, not invasive. Nowadays frequently introduced with birdseed.
Originally cultivated in Northeastern China (Lu & al. 2009), nowadays mainly in India.
Panicum miliaceum subsp. ruderale
Includes wild and feral relatives of the common millet, P. miliaceum subsp. miliaceum,
such as P. spontaneum.
B; W (7863/2: Essl & Stöhr 2006); N (Melzer & Barta 2008); O (Kleesadl 2009);
ST; K; NT; FL; BZ; BL
Another, probably feral relative of P. miliaceum subsp. miliaceum was described from
Carinthia as subsp. agricolum (Scholz & Mikoláš 1991; subsp. agricola in Fischer
& al. 2008), habitually differing from subsp. ruderale by cernuous panicles and with
slightly broader grains (width 1.9–2.3 mm, whereas grains of subsp. ruderale should
be more slender, 1.6–2.1 mm). Melzer (1993) additionally refers to its persistent
glumes in the stage of ripeness. It was recorded from B (Melzer & Barta 2008); W
(Pachschwöll & al. 2018); N (Melzer & Barta 2008); O (Hohla 2001); ST and
K (Melzer 1993); OT (obs. O. Stöhr, 2017: http://forum.flora-austria.at/viewtopic.
php?f=10&t=465&hilit=Panicum).
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to naturalized (as a weed in maize fields), regionally invasive.
Origin: Eastern Central Asia.
Panicum philadelphicum subsp. gattingeri (P. capillare subsp. gattingeri,
P. gattingeri)
Confusions with P. capillare occurred in some parts of Europe (Verloove & Ardenghi
2015).
N (Melzer & Barta 2008); O (Hohla & al. 2015); ST; BL; PO; UD; SLO (9647/3:
Melzer 1996b, 9747/3: Jogan 2014 as P. capillare subsp. gattingeri)
Records of P. philadelphicum (incl. subsp. gattingeri) are available from BG; TN.
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern North America.
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Panicum schinzii (P. laevifolium)
B; O (Hohla 2000, 2002); ST (Graz, 2017: obs. S. Leonhartsberger); K
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: South Africa.
Panicum virgatum
W (Barta 2018b); O (7847/2, Hohla 2011a); S (Schröck & al. 2004)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: North America.
Parapholis incurva
TN (Torbole, leg. F. Zoller, 2010, det. F. Prosser, ROV)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Northern Africa, Crimea, Caucasus, Middle East.
Paspalum dilatatum
BG; BS (Arietti & Crescini 1974); TN (0031/3: Bertolli & Prosser 2014); VR; UD
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: South America.
A similar species of South American origin, Paspalum dasypleurum (Paspalum pachyrrhizum) was recently recorded from the south of Lecco, near the southwestern edge of
the territory considered here (Verloove & al. 2016, with a key to the alien Paspalum
species from South America).
Paspalum distichum (P. paspalodes, incl. var. digitaria)
ST (Melzer 1954, as “subsp. digitaria”); BG; BS; VR; VI; PO
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Southern North America, Central and South America.
Pennisetum alopecuroides → Cenchrus purpurascens
Pennisetum macrourum → Cenchrus macrourus
Pennisetum villosum → Cenchrus longisetus
Pennisetum flaccidum → Cenchrus flaccidus
Pennisetum glaucum → Cenchrus americanus
Phalaris aquatica
TN; VR
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
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Phalaris arundinacea var. picta
This variety originates from a spontaneous mutation and was already familiar to Linnaeus (Sp. Pl. 1: 55, 1753). It summarizes several ornamental cultivars of the “European”
genotype of P. arundinacea (Nelson & al. 2014), mainly ‘picta’ and ‘aureovariegata’.
B; W; N (Essl 2003); O (Hohla 2000); ST (Essl 2003); K; S (Pflugbeil 2015); NT
(already in Murr 1931, Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015); V; BZ (abundant at
Haider See in Upper Vinschgau, obs. T. Wilhalm); TN; VR; BL
Perennial neophyte, persistent, potentially invasive.
Origin: unknown.
Phalaris brachystachys
ST (Melzer 1954); CO; LC; TN; BL
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Phalaris canariensis
B; W; N; O (Hohla 2001); ST (Melzer 1954); K; S (Schröck & al. 2004); T (Pagitz
& Lechner Pagitz 2015); V; BAV (Dörr & Lippert 2001); GRB; CO; LC; BZ;
TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Annual neophyte, persistent to established, potentially invasive.
Origin: Morocco.
Phalaris coerulescens
BG; BZ [–] (9533/4, Kiem 1978); TN
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Phalaris minor
ST (Melzer 1954); BG (0223/3, 2004, hb. Perico: Martini & al. 2012); BZ [–] (9330/4,
single record: Wilhalm 2001)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Northern Africa, Crimea, Caucasus, Middle East, extending to India.
Phalaris paradoxa
ST (Melzer 1954); V (8424/3: Dörr 1992); BAV (8527/2: Dörr & Lippert 2001); TN
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East.
Phleum arenarium
W [–] (Forstner & Hübl 1971 cited a herbarium sheet “Wüste Stellen im Prater”, 1879,
W, no further records); TN
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Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Western Mediterranean area.
Phleum paniculatum
W [–]; V (8423/3: Dörr & Lippert 2001); BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral to established, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East, Central and Eastern Asia.
Phleum subulatum (P. bellardii)
W; ST (Melzer 1954); TN
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Phyllostachys
Among cultivated ornamental bamboos, Phyllostachys is most common. Several species
are commercially available, mainly P. aurea and P. nigra. Thus, both are most frequently found as garden escapes, but the majority of them concern rhizomatous growth
from cultivated stands. These are not really spontaneous and thus underrepresented in
observations. Any bamboo determination needs typical (fresh) material and the help of
experienced specialists or gardeners.
Phyllostachys aurea
BS; VR
Perennial neophyte, persistent, in Italian provinces locally invasive.
Origin: China, Vietnam.
Phyllostachys aureosulcata
O (Hohla & al. 2015)
Perennial neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: China.
Phyllostachys nigra
N [?] (2001, A. Drescher & M. Magnes in an unpublished project study, see Walter &
al. 2002, determination doubtful); O (Hohla 2011a)
Perennial neophyte, established, in Italian provinces locally invasive.
Origin: China.
Piptatherum miliaceum → Oloptum miliaceum
Piptatherum virescens → Achnatherum virescens
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Poa bigelovii
O (7745/1, det. H. Scholz: Hohla 2009)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Southwestern North America.
Poa infirma
W (Forstner & Hübl 1971, Diran 2016)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Middle East, Eastern Asia.
Annotation: Poa supina, indigenous in most of the territory, even in lowland areas
(Melzer 1969, Melzer & Barta 1995, Hohla & al. 2005b), is occasionally introduced with seed mixtures in urban gardens and parks as a regional neophyte: ST (Graz:
Melzer 2005); W (Melzer & Barta 2008).
Poa trivialis subsp. sylvicola
Its taxonomic value is controversely discussed. Neither Teppner & Wetschnig (1980)
nor Duckert-Henriod & Favarger (1987) could find any karyological differences, but
with material for Teppner’s studies, morphological characteristics were demonstrated to
be stable under cultivation (W. Gutermann, pers. comm.).
K (9448/1: Melzer 1996a); BS; BZ; TN; VR; VI; BL; PO (2014, obs. T. Wilhalm &
P. Englmaier, BOZ and hb. P. Englmaier); UD
Perennial. Indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere, especially in K,
naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area.
Polypogon monspeliensis
W; N (Barta & Modl 2018); O [–] (one single finding by J. Böck: Eisenbahndamm
nächst Gasslhof b. Wels, 1871: Hohla & al. 2009); ST (Melzer 1954); K (Melzer
1989); S (8144/3: Hohla 2011a; 8445/3: Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017); V [–]
(Polatschek & Neuner 2013); BG (0223/4, 1943, PAV: Martini & al. 2012); BS
(0427/1: Zersi 1871); BZ [–] (Kiem 1983); TN (Prosser 1993); VR; DU [–]
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Northern and Eastern Africa, Central and Southern Asia.
Polypogon viridis
O (7646/4: Hohla 2014); ST (Berg 2015a); CO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR
Short-living perennial. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps,
elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Northern and Eastern Africa, Western Central Asia, Southern Asia.
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Psathyrostachys juncea (Elymus junceus)
BZ (9330/3: Wilhalm 2001)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, locally established, not invasive. Introduced with seed
mixtures for erosion control on extremely dry slopes.
Origin: Temperate Asia.
Pseudosasa japonica (Arundinaria japonica)
O (7744/1, confirm. F. Verloove: Hohla 2018); BZ (one location near Merano, 9333/1,
1976, leg. H. Vondrovsky: Niklfeld 2003)
Perennial neophyte, persistent (not really spontaneous), potentially invasive.
Origin: Japan, Korea.
Psilurus incurvus → Festuca incurva
Puccinellia distans
Mainly distributed along European shorelines and some continental places with saline
or alkaline earth-saturated soils (Englmaier 1982). Historical records on saline or
magnesitic soils (e.g. on magnesite deposits or high-magnesium ophiolitic bedrocks
as in Kraubath, Styria: Melzer 1961) possibly refer to indigenous distribution, elsewhere, on wasteland, this species was introduced with salt trade (e.g. J. v. Mor in Linz,
“Donaudamm beim Salzamtsgebäude”, 1830, or several records in Dalla Torre
& Sarnthein 1906: 252, sub nom. Festuca distans), even with use of pickling salt
(Murr 1931, sub nom. Atropis distans: “Höttingerau, Schlachthof”). In the recent past
rapidly spreading along roads due to use of thawing salts, in the Northern and Central
Alps as well as in the Bavarian and Austrian forelands and the Bohemian Massif; further on distributed with road maintenance or with traffic itself, thus found even along
secondary, rural or forestry roads (e.g. Salzburg, Kremstal/Bundschuhtal, near Dr.
Josef-Mehrl-Hütte, roadside, 1725 msm, 30. 6. 2017, obs. P. Englmaier). Rarely added
to seed mixtures for roadsides (“ReNatura B6 Bankettmischung”, product of Kärntner
Saatbau), but with poor market impact. Rare or missing at the southern fringe of the
Alps.
B; W; N; O (Hohla 2001); ST; K; S; T (Stöhr 2007); V (Hohla 2014); BAV (Dörr &
Lippert 2001); CO [?]; LC [?] (both records by Aeschimann & al. 2004, doubtful:
origin not cited, not confirmed elsewhere); BZ; TN; BL; PO; UD; SLO (Jogan
2012, 2014)
Perennial. Mainly neophytic, established, regionally invasive.
Origin: Eurasian coastlands and inland saline habitats.
Puccinellia fasciculata
UD [?] (Melzer 1997: 75 “Oberhalb Pontebba (Pontafel) auf einer Planierung in und
um einen flachen Tümpel ein großer Bestand, seit 1990”, doubtful: not recently
confirmed, no other records)
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Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western European and Western Mediterranean coastlands, extending to
Morocco.
Rostraria cristata → Trisetaria cristata
Sclerochloa dura
B; W; N; O [–]; ST (Berg 2015c); CO; BG (0323/2, 1911, PAV: Martini & al. 2012);
BS (0227/1: Zersi 1871); TN; VR
Annual. Indigenous in Eastern Austria, naturalized, possibly indigenous at the southern
fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediteranean area, Pannonian area, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Scleropoa rigida → Catapodium rigidum
Secale cereale
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; FL; GRB; BG; BS (historical records); TN; VR; SLO
Cultivated crop, but also used for intercropping and occasionally for erosion control,
thus allowing spontaneous growth of feral plants.
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Asia minor.
Setaria
Setaria has a rather complex evolutionary history. Dekker (2003) assumed all Setaria
originate in Africa. Molecular genetic analyses gave a rather unclear pattern: A group of
African Setaria, including S. pumila is related to American species (S. parviflora), while
other Central and South American taxa, e.g. S. grisebachii are spread in several other
clades (Kellogg & al. 2009). One of the rare well-identifiable clades is a “temperate
Asian clade” (Kellogg 2017) with most of the alien Setaria species present in Europe:
S. faberi, S. verticillata, S. verticilliformis, S. viridis subsp. viridis and subsp. pycnocoma, and S. italica, the foxtail millet, originating from S. viridis (Benabdelmouna &
al. 2001), domesticated in Northern China since the Neolithic era (Diao & Jia 2017) and
related with its wild ancestors by a complex backcrossing history (Darmency 2005).
Taxonomy follows Dekker (2003), but S. italica is treated on species rank.
Setaria faberi
B; O (Hohla 2000, Kleesadl 2009); ST (Melzer 1981, 1989); K (Melzer 1989,
1993); S (8143/2: Stöhr & al. 2006; Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017); NT (Smettan
2012); V; VR; SLO (9954/2: Jogan 2012)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to naturalized, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
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Setaria grisebachii
W (Melzer & Barta 1999)
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central and South America.
Setaria italica (incl. subsp. moharia = subsp. germanica)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S (Schröck & al. 2004); T; V; BAV; GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN;
VR; BL; PO
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive. Mainly distributed with bird seed (Melzer
1985).
Originally cultivated in Eastern Asia.
Setaria parviflora (S. geniculata P. Beauv., non Sieber ex Kunth)
W; BS
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Central and South America.
Setaria pumila (S. glauca, S. helvola)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; FL; BAV; GRB; CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR;
BL; VI; PO; UD; SLO
Annual neophyte, persistent to naturalized, potentially invasive. Mainly occurring in
maize fields.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Africa, Southern and Eastern Asia.
Setaria verticillata (incl. S. gussonei)
B; W; N; O (Melzer & Barta 1995, Hohla & al. 1998); ST; K; S; NT; V; FL; BAV;
GRB; CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; VI; PO; UD [–]; SLO
Annual neophyte, persistent to naturalized, potentially invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
Setaria verticilliformis (S. decipiens, S. gussonei, S. verticillata var. ambigua)
W; N (Melzer & Barta 1999); O (7651/4: Melzer & Barta 1995); ST (Melzer
1987); NT (Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015); BAV; GRB; BG; BS; BZ; TN
(F. Prosser, pers. obs.); BL
Annual neophyte, persistent, potentially invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
Setaria viridis subsp. viridis (incl. S. viridis var. weinmannii)
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S (Stöhr & al. 2009: var. weinmannii); T; V; FL; BAV; GRB;
CO; LC; SO; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; VI; PO; UD; SLO
Annual neophyte, persistent to naturalized, potentially invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
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Setaria viridis subsp. pycnocoma (S. viridis var. major)
B (Melzer & Barta 2008); N (Melzer & Barta 2008); O (Hohla & Melzer 2003);
ST (Melzer 1981); K; S; T; V; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD
Annual neophyte, persistent, not invasive.
Origin: Eastern Asia.
Sorghum bicolor (S. vulgare, S. saccharatum, S. sativum, S. dochna)
Cultivated crop, at present grown from Subsaharan Africa to India.
B; W; N; O (Hohla 2006c); ST; K; S; T; V; FL; BAV; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR
Annual neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive. Mainly distributed with bird
seed (feral cultivars without bitter substances).
Originally cultivated in Ethiopia.
Sorghum drummondii (S. sudanense)
Hybridogenous, derived from the cultivated crops S. bicolor and S. arundinaceum
(Ibrahim & al. 2016). Formerly grown even in Austria as a forage crop, nowadays rare,
occasionally introduced with bird seed.
B; N
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Originally cultivated in Sudan.
Sorghum halepense
Ancestor of the various cultivated Sorghum crops (Sun & al. 1994). Mainly occurring
in maize fields.
B; W; N; O; ST; K; S; T; V; FL; BAV; GRB; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN (Prosser
& Bertolli 2015); VR; VI; BL; PO; UD; SLO
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, regionally invasive.
Origin: Northern Africa, Asia minor, Western Central Asia, Middle East, extending to
India.
Sporobolus
Some genera, among them Crypsis and Spartina, need to be included in Sporobolus, as
proposed by Peterson & al. (2014).
Sporobolus cryptandrus
T [–] (Murr 1931)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral to persistent, not invasive.
Origin: North America.
Sporobolus indicus
W (Pachschwöll & al. 2016); S (8144/3, confirm. F. Verloove: Eichberger & al.
2015a); BG; BS; TN; VR
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Perennial neophyte, ephemeral, locally established, locally invasive.
Origin: North America.
Annotation: Sporobolus michauxianus (Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link, non Sporobolus pectinatus Hack.) from North America, was recently observed for the first time in
Italy, subspontaneously growing east of the centre of Milan (Banfi & Galasso 2016).
As this species is increasingly used as ornamental grass and this new record is not far
away from the Alps, its occurrence along the southern fringe of the Alps may be expected in the near future.
Sporobolus neglectus
O (Hohla 2014); K (Melzer 2003, at Deutsch-Griffen, 800 msm, as a mass occurrence, 2017, obs. P. Englmaier); S (Hohla & Melzer 2003, Stöhr & al. 2007,
Pflugbeil & al. 2017); NT (T. Wilhalm in Stöhr & al. 2007, Stöhr & al. 2012,
Pagitz & Lechner Pagitz 2015) OT (Stöhr 2009); V (Hohla 2014); BG; BS;
BZ; TN; VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO (9853/2: Mihorič 2016, Jogan 2017)
Annual (or short-living perennial) neophyte, ephemeral, locally established, regionally
invasive.
Origin: North America.
Sporobolus vaginiflorus (Muhlenbergia vaginiflora)
B (Gilli & Pachschwöll 2018); O (Hohla & al. 2015); K (Melzer 2003); S (Pilsl in
Hohla & al. 2015, Wittmann & Pflugbeil 2017, Reich & al. 2018b); NT (Pagitz
& Lechner Pagitz 2015); V (Hohla 2016); FL; BG; BS; BZ (Wilhalm 1998);
TN (Prosser 1993); VR; BL; PO; UD; SLO (Jogan 2017)
Annual (or short-living perennial) neophyte, ephemeral, locally established, regionally
invasive.
Melzer (1994) argued for an introduction of Sporobolus species with seed material.
This is highly implausible for seed mixtures, but impurities in seed material originating
from North America are possible. Wilhalm (1998) could not observe any introduction
by seed material. Sporobolus seeds are easily distributed along roadsides during autumnal road maintenance (Hohla & al. 2015). Jogan (2017) proposed several, possibly
independent centers of spread, one of them, in western Slovenia and in the Sava river
corridor, seems to be responsible for a successive colonization of the southeastern Alpine valleys (a similar concept as in Wilhalm 1998). Nowadays, S. vaginiflorus was
found even in southwestern Hungary (Király & Hohla 2015) and in Eastern Austria
(Gilli & Pachschwöll 2018). Another local center seems to establish in the Alpine
Rhine valley (Tinner 2013), with a following successive colonization of western Austrian federal states.
Origin: North America.
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Stenotaphrum secundatum var. variegatum
Warm-temperate, rhizomatous grass, in several cultivars (e.g. ‘Texas Common’ or ‘Floratine’) used for lawn, in its var. variegatum cultivated as ornamental plant.
O (Hohla & al. 2015)
Perennial neophyte, ephemeral (not really spontaneous), not invasive.
Origin: Western Africa, Central and South America.
Trachynia distachya → Brachypodium distachyon
Tragus racemosus
B (Melzer & Barta 2008); W (Diran & al. 2016); N (Diran & al. 2016); O (Kleesadl
2009); ST (Berg 2015b); S (Pilsl & al. 2008); BS; BZ (Kiem 1978 and Wilhalm
2001 note decreasing abundance); TN; VR; BL; VI; PO; UD
Annual neophyte, ephemeral, regionally established to naturalized, not invasive within
the territory, but invasive throughout the Pannonian Basin (G. Király, pers. comm.).
Origin: Mediterranean area, extratropical Africa, Western Central Asia, Middle East.
Trisetaria cristata (Rostraria cristata, Lophochloa cristata, Koeleria phleoides,
K. gerardii)
Data of Wölk & Röser (2017) suggest a re-integration of Rostraria into Trisetaria.
W; ST; CO; LC; BG; BS; BZ; TN; VR
Annual. Naturalized to indigenous at the southern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Mediterranean area, Northern Africa, Middle East, extending to India.
Trisetaria panicea (Koeleria panicea, Trisetum paniceum)
Data of Wölk & Röser (2017) suggest a re-integration of Trisetaria panicea in Koeleria,
whereas in the dataset of Saarela & al. (2017) its position is more apart from Koeleria,
and, unlike Koeleria, it is annual. Thus, it is provisionally left under Trisetaria.
V (8424/3: Dörr & Lippert 2001); BZ [–] (Kiem 1978); TN; BL; BS
Annual neophyte, as a forage alien, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Western Europe, Western Mediterranean area.
Annotation: Triticum crop species will rarely become feral.
Triticum biunciale → Aegilops biuncialis
Triticum durum (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum)
Cultivated crop, spontaneously occurring on wasteland and along rail tracks.
V (8424/3: Dörr & Lippert 2001); BAV (8427/4, 8527/2: Dörr & Lippert 2001)
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Egypt.
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Triticum cylindricum → Aegilops cylindrica
Triticum neglectum → Aegilops neglecta
Triticum polonicum
Occasionally cultivated as crop. Sometimes spontaneously occurring.
S (Pflugbeil & Pilsl 2013)
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Palestine, Egypt.
Triticum spelta
Occasionally cultivated as crop. Sometimes spontaneously occurring.
O (Hohla 2006b)
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Caucasus.
Triticum triunciale → Aegilops triuncialis
Triticum turgidum
Occasionally cultivated as crop. Sometimes spontaneously occurring.
K; BZ; TN
Annual archaeophyte, ephemeral, not invasive.
Origin: Palestine, Syria.
Triticum vagans → Aegilops geniculata
Triticum ventricosum → Aegilops ventricosa
Ventenata dubia
B; W [–]; N; O [–] (leg. Hübner, 1858, LI: Hohla & al. 2009: 301); ST [–]; GRB; VR
(F. Prosser, pers. obs., 2001–2002, not found again since then); VI
Annual. Possibly indigenous at the eastern fringe of the Alps, elsewhere neophytic,
ephemeral, not invasive, but reported as highly invasive in the US Pacific Northwest by Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board (https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/
weeds/ventenata).
Origin: Southern Europe, North Africa, Pontic area, Western Central Asia.
Vulpia alopecuros → Festuca danthonii
Vulpia bromoides → Festuca bromoides
Vulpia ciliata → Festuca danthonii
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Vulpia geniculata → Festuca geniculata
Vulpia ligustica → Festuca ligustica
Vulpia myuros → Festuca myuros
Vulpia unilateralis → Festuca maritima
Conclusions
Within the last decade, 32 spontaneously occurring grass taxa were found as new for the
Austrian territory (compared with Walter & al. 2002 and Fischer & al. 2008), this is
a share of 21% of the total alien grass flora of Austria (152 taxa). Sixty-eight additional
alien grass species occur in the surrounding Eastern Alps, mainly their Italian part, resulting in a total of 220 alien species in this study.
Some neophytes are known for their invasive potential, among grasses e.g. some
maize weeds or roadside aliens. Impressive examples from abroad are documented with
New-world Stipeae (Nassella) in Australia (McLaren & al. 2004) or with Ventenata
dubia in the US Pacific Northwest. Despite of this fact, the share of invasive or potentially invasive species in the territory covered here is surprisingly low: 20% are invasive or potentially invasive at any level, an unexpected low number, compared with
80% non-invasive taxa and only 1.5% occasional short-distance garden escapes. Most
of them are only locally (e.g. at roadsides) or regionally invasive (e.g. in maize cropping
areas), only a few may severely influence natural or semi-natural vegetation in large
areas, most of all Festuca brevipila-cultivars.
Due to climatic change, global trade and increasing ornamental plant offers, a continuous increase of alien species, their spread and their invasiveness is expected.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank all who provided particular information on occurrence, status, distribution and
taxonomy, especially Uwe Amarell, Carlo Argenti, Enzo Bona, Gabriele Galasso, Christian Gilli, Walter
Gutermann, Michael Hohla, Nejc Jogan, Gergely Király, Gerhard Kleesadl, Michael Kleih, Barbara
Knickmann, Fabrizio Martini, Susanne Leonhartsberger, Michael Münch, Clemens Pachschwöll, Peter
Pilsl, Filippo Prosser and Helmut Wittmann.
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