Molinia Explained

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.^[1] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.^{[2] [3] [4]}

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.^[5]

Species^[6]

• Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada
• Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril

formerly includedsee Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia

Notes and References

1. Schrank, Franz von Paula von 1789. Baiersche Flora 1: 100, 334
2. Book: RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. 2008. Dorling Kindersley. United Kingdom. 978-1405332965. 1136.
3. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=120930 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 447 麦氏草属 mai shi cao shu Molinia Schrank, Baier. Fl. 1: 100, 334. 1789
4. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Molinia Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Molinia
5. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.
6. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Molinia The Plant List search for Molinia