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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Alopecurus carolinianus
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   POACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Alopecurus carolinianus
 AUTHORITY:  Walt.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    ANNUAL FOXTAIL
    CAROLINA FOXTAIL
    COMMON FOXTAIL
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: ALCA4
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     PRAIRIE
     WETLAND
       MARSH
     CULTURAL
       AGRICULTURAL FIELD
         CROPLAND
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOND            BOONE           BROWN
   CALHOUN         CASS            CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLARK
   CLAY            CLINTON         COOK            CRAWFORD        CUMBERLAND
   DEKALB          DEWITT          DOUGLAS         DUPAGE          EDWARDS
   EFFINGHAM       FAYETTE         FRANKLIN        FULTON          GREENE
   GRUNDY          HAMILTON        HANCOCK         HENDERSON       HENRY
   IROQUOIS        JACKSON         JASPER          JEFFERSON       JERSEY
   JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        KENDALL         LAKE
   LAWRENCE        LIVINGSTON      LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY
   MCLEAN          MACON           MACOUPIN        MADISON         MARION
   MASON           MASSAC          MENARD          MONROE          MORGAN
   MOULTRIE        OGLE            PEORIA          PERRY           PIATT
   PIKE            POPE            PULASKI         RANDOLPH        RICHLAND
   ST. CLAIR       SALINE          SANGAMON        SHELBY          STARK
   UNION           VERMILION       WABASH          WASHINGTON      WHITE
   WILL            WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear
    INFLORESCENCE:   Panicle
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Grain
 
 DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS:
     Longer awns of the glumes distinguish this species from
     A. aequalis, while the shorter spikelets distinguish it from A.
     pratensis.
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 GEOGRAPHIC COMMENTS:
     Species is found throughout the state.
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Occasional
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial   Annual
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      4         MONTH END-      7
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in mucky soil, and as a weed
     of nursery beds.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   COLONIZING
 
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Alopecurus carolinianus
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015