Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Achnatherum hymenoides |
| group | Monocots |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Family common name(s) | grass; true grass |
| Genus common name(s) | achnatherum |
| Species common name(s) | sand rice-grass; sand rice grass; sand ricegrass; sandrice; western ricegrass; western mountain-rice; western mountain rice; western mountain rice-grass; western mountain ricegrass; Quincy grass |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | desert ricegrass is applied to multiple Stipa s.l. taxa; mountain ricegrass, sand grass, sandgrass, needlegrass, needle-grass, needle grass, rice grass, rice-grass, ricegrass, false rice grass, false rice-grass, false ricegrass, mountain-rice, mountain rice, wild rice, bunch grass, bunch-grass, bunchgrass, wild millet, millet, silky grass, silky-grass are applied to multiple Poaceae taxa; silk grass, silkgrass, puna grass, puna-grass, punagrass, woolgrass, woolly grass, wooly grass, woollygrass, woolygrass are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Indian ricegrass, Indian rice grass, Indian rice-grass, Indian rice, Indian millet, Indian mountain-rice, Indian mountain rice, Indian mountain-ricegrass |
| Notes | Quincy is a proper name, so upper case preferable |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Stipa hymenoides Roem. & Schult.; Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper |
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