Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334 They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.
SpeciesThe Plant List search for Molinia Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada Molinia arundinacea (Schrank) - Native from Georgia to Scotland, primary grows in and around the Alps
formerly included see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia Moliniopsis
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