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(First upload on October 3 2009. Last on August 15 2018) [ 日本語 | English ]

Phleum pratense L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Phleum L. (アワガエリ)
Ooawagaeri (オオアワガエリ, 大粟還(り)), timothy grass (US) and cat's tail (EN)
Kinuitosou (キヌイトソウ)
Lifeform: short-rhizomatous, deciduous perennial grass, with 20-40 cm tall
Distribution: native to Europe (exotic to Japan, introduced for a pasture)

Hokkaido Blue List: A3

Habitat: (artificial, or disturbed) grassland in the case of Japan

HUSTEP: Plants and Plant communities in Japan (flora list)

Pollen allergy (花粉症): the pollens dispersed by wind
Chromosome number: 2n = 28, 42
Use: pasture grass
Synonyms:

Phleum intermedium Jord.
Phleum parnassicum Boiss.

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Phleum pratense in Hokkaido


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[1/2] in front of Saburen House, Toyotomi Town, northern Hokkaido, on July 13 2013. [2] I saw many caterpillars on the thimothy. [3/4] near JR Akaigawa Station, southern Hokkaido, on July 5 2013. [5] at the backyard of the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, on May 19 2016. [6] in the Road Station Mori to Mizuumino Sato (the forest and lake hometown) Horokanai, northern Japan, on June 25 2018. [7] along Fureai Course in Nopporo Forest Park on July 17 2021. The insect is in subfamily Phaneropterinae. Records: at the weather station of the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, on August 31 2009..

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