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Elymus repens

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Elymus repens, commonly known as couch grass, is a very common perennial species of grass native to most of Europe, Asia, the Arctic biome, and northwest Africa. [1]

30 relations: Africa, Asia, Awn (botany), Barley, Bird, Bunting (bird), Carl Linnaeus, Caterpillar, Culm (botany), Essex skipper, Europe, Finch, Flower, Glume, Hybrid (biology), Incense, Invasive species, Leaf, Lepidoptera, Mammal, Naturalisation (biology), Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, Palisot de Beauvois, Perennial plant, Poaceae, Rhizome, Seed, Subspecies, United States National Agricultural Library, Variety (botany).

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Awn (botany)

In botany, an awn is either a hair- or bristle-like appendage on a larger structure, or in the case of the Asteraceae, a stiff needle-like element of the pappus.

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Barley

Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bunting (bird)

Buntings are a group of Eurasian and African passerine birds of the family Emberizidae.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Caterpillar

Caterpillars are the larval stage of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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Culm (botany)

Culm, in botanical context, originally referred to a stem of any type of plant.

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Essex skipper

The Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola) is a butterfly in family Hesperiidae.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Finch

The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Glume

In botany, a glume is a bract (leaf-like structure) below a spikelet in the inflorescence (flower cluster) of grasses (Poaceae) or the flowers of sedges (Cyperaceae).

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid, or crossbreed, is the result of combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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Incense

Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and that has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Naturalisation (biology)

In biology, naturalisation (or naturalization) is any process by which a non-native organism or species spreads into the wild and its reproduction is sufficient to maintain its population.

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Nicaise Auguste Desvaux

Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French botanist.

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Palisot de Beauvois

Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (27 July 1752, Arras – 21 January 1820, Paris) was a French naturalist.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses, commonly referred to collectively as grass.

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Rhizome

In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (from script "mass of roots", from rhizóō "cause to strike root") is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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United States National Agricultural Library

The United States National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of the world's largest agricultural research libraries, and serves as a national library of the United States and as the library of the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Variety (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies but above that of form.

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Redirects here:

Agropyron repens, Common Couch, Common couch, Common couch grass, Couchgrass, Dog grass, E. repens, Elytrigia repens, Elytrigia vaillantiana, Quack Grass, Quack grass, Quackgrass, Quick grass, Quitch, Quitch grass, Scutch grass, Triticum repens, Triticum vaillantianum, Twitch grass.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elymus_repens

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