''Apera'' is a small genus of annual grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America. ; SpeciesAltervista Flora Italiana, genere ''Apera''
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Apera baytopiana ''Apera'' is a small genus of annual grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America. ; Species * '' ...

'' Dogan - Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey * ''

Apera intermedia ''Apera'' is a small genus of annual Poaceae, grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America. ; Spec ...

'' Hack. - Turkey, Aegean Islands, Iraq, Iran, Caucasus; naturalized in Primorye * ''

Apera interrupta ''Apera'' is a small genus of annual grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America. ; Species * ''A ...

'' (L.) P.Beauv. - dense silkybent, interrupted windgrass - Eurasia and North Africa from Portugal to Sweden to Algeria to Kazakhstan; naturalized in Argentina, Chile, United States, Canada * ''

Apera spica-venti ''Apera spica-venti'', the loose silky-bent or common windgrass, is an annual or biannual plant in the genus ''Apera''. It belongs to the family Poaceae. This species is native to Eurasia and North Africa from the Canary Islands to Denmark to Y ...

'' (L.) P. Beauv. - loose silkybent, common windgrass - Eurasia and North Africa from

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

to Denmark to Yakutia; naturalized in United States, Canada, and Russian Far East * ''

Apera triaristata ''Apera'' is a small genus of annual grasses, known commonly as silkybent grass or windgrass. They are native to Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia but have been introduced and naturalized in much of North and South America. ; Species * '' ...

'' Dogan - Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey ; formerly included see ''

Agrostis ''Agrostis'' (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world. It has been bred as a GMO creeping bent grass. Species * '' Agrostis aequivalvi'' ...

Anemanthele ''Anemanthele'' is a genus of plants in the grass family native to New Zealand. The only known species is ''Anemanthele lessoniana'', often called gossamer grass or New Zealand wind grass or pheasant's tail grass. This is a naturally rare g ...

Dichelachne ''Dichelachne'' is a genus of Australian, Indonesian, and Pacific Island plants in the grass family. They are known commonly as plumegrasses.Muhlenbergia Sporobolus''

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Pooideae Grasses of Africa Grasses of Asia Grasses of Europe Poaceae genera Taxa named by Michel Adanson Taxa named by Palisot de Beauvois {{Pooideae-stub

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