Milium effusum

Milium effusum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Milium
Species: M. effusum
Binomial name
Milium effusum
Synonyms[1]

Milium effusum (vernacular name American milletgrass or wood millet) is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to damp forests of the Holarctic Kingdom.

The Latin specific epithet effusum means "spreading loosely".[2]

Habitat

M. effusum inhabits damp, deciduous woods and shaded banks, where it grows on winter-wet, calcareous to mildly acidic clay and loam soils, and also over rocks in western Scotland.[3]

Distribution

It can be found in the northern United States and Canada,[4] and Europe, including Britain but excluding the Mediterranean, east to Siberia and the Himalayas.[5]

Cultivation

The yellow-leaved cultivar ‘Aureum’, known as Bowles’ golden grass, is cultivated as an ornamental garden plant, and in the UK has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.[6][7]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved March 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for Gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. ISBN 184533731X.
  3. ↑ "Online Atlas of the British & Irish Flora".
  4. ↑ "Milium effusum". United States Department of Agriculture. 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Plants for a Future".
  6. ↑ "RHS Plantfinder - Milium effusum 'Aureum'". Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 64. Retrieved 4 April 2018.


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