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Ryegrasses
Lolium
Lolium is a genus of tufted grasses in the bluegrass subfamily of the grass family. It is often called ryegrass, but this term is sometimes used to refer to grasses in other genera.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Lolium
subgenusLolium
Schedonorus
subgenusSchedonorus
Hybrid Fescue
hybridLolium × elongatum
Lolium × krasanii
hybridLolium × krasanii
Lolium × holmbergii
hybridLolium × holmbergii
Lolium formosanum
speciesLolium formosanum
Lolium × subnutans
hybridLolium × subnutans
Lolium tuberosum
speciesLolium tuberosum
Lolium mairei
speciesLolium mairei
Lolium × brinkmannii
hybridLolium × brinkmannii
Lolium tzvelevianum
speciesLolium tzvelevianum
Lolium font-queri
speciesLolium font-queri
Lolium duratum
speciesLolium duratum
Lolium chayuense
speciesLolium chayuense
Lolium atlantigenum
speciesLolium atlantigenum
Lolium adzharicum
speciesLolium adzharicum
Lolium letourneuxianum
speciesLolium letourneuxianum
Lolium liangshanicum
speciesLolium liangshanicum
hybrid ryegrass
hybridLolium × hybridum
Lolium mazzettianum
speciesLolium mazzettianum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.376
On the Virtues of Herbs
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung) · 1090 · p.112
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.161
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.543
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.159
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.740
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.361
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.581
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.494
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.550
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.552
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lolium in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52800.