Reed Foxtail, Creeping Foxtail, Creeping Meadow Foxtail,
Hebrew: זנב-שועל ביצתי, Arabic: الثعلبية القصبية
| Scientific name: | Alopecurus arundinaceus Poir. | |
| Synonym name: | Alopecurus ventricosus Pers. | |
| Common name: | Reed Foxtail, Creeping Foxtail, Creeping Meadow Foxtail | |
| Hebrew name: | זנב-שועל ביצתי | |
| Arabic name: | الثعلبية القصبية | |
| Family: | Graminea (Poaceae), Grass Family, משפחת הדגניים |
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| Life form: | Hemicryptophyte | |
| Stems: | culms 30-110 cm high, erect, not rooting from the nodes | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, entire | |
| Flowers: | Panicle 2-9 cm long, 8-13 mm wide, broadly cylindrical. Spikelets 4-6 mm long; glumes acute, slightly to markedly divergent at the tips, connate for a quarter their length, wingless, the keel and nerves covered with silky hairs up to 2 mm long; lemma usually longer than the glumes, sometimes ± equalling them, slightly to markedly obliquely truncate, the margins connate for a third their length; awn exceeding the tip of the lemma by up to 5 mm, but ,often included in the glumes; anthers 2-3.5 mm long | |
| Fruits: | Fruit - caryopsis, Caryopsis ellipsoid, longitudinally grooved, hilum long-linear | |
| Flowering Period: | March, April | |
| Habitat: | Humid ground, riverbanks | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
| Chorotype, טיפוס התפוצה: | Euro-Siberian - Med - Irano-Turanian | |
| Summer shedding: | Perennating |
Derivation of the botanical name: Alopecurus, Greek αλωπεκουροϛ, alopecuros a fox's tail. arundinaceus, Arundo, read, cane; things made from reeds or shaped like a reed; resembling a reed. The Hebrew word: זנב-שועל, zanav-shual , a tranlation from the scientific name Alopecuros, a fox's tail.
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