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. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass and wallaby grass. Australian species have since been reclassified into the genus ''

Rytidosperma ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the gr ...

''. ; Species * '' Danthonia alpina'' Vest – central + southern Europe; Ukraine, Turkey, Caucasus * '' Danthonia annableae'' P.M.Peterson & Rúgolo –

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* '' Danthonia × breviaristata'' (Beck) Vierh – France, Italy, Austria, Czech Rep, Romania * ''

Danthonia breviseta ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgr ...

'' Hack. – Rio de Janeiro * '' Danthonia californica'' Bol. – BC ALB

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Danthonia cernua ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' Döll – Brazil * ''

Danthonia chaseana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Conert – Minas Gerais * ''

Danthonia chiapasensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia chilensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' É.Desv. – Argentina, Chile incl Juan Fernández Is * ''

Danthonia cirrata ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia compressa ''Danthonia compressa'' is a species of grass known by the common names mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, and slender oatgrass. Distribution This bunchgrass is native to eastern North America, where it can be found in eastern Canada and the ...

'' Austin – mountain oatgrass, flattened oatgrass, slender oatgrass – eastern North America from Georgia to Nova Scotia + Ontario * '' Danthonia decumbens'' (L.) DC. – common heath grass – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Caucasus * ''

Danthonia domingensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

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Danthonia holm-nielsenii ''Danthonia holm-nielsenii'' is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is found only in Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador ...

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Danthonia intermedia ''Danthonia intermedia'' is a species of grass known by the common names timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass, and mountain wild-oat grass. This clumping erect perennial grass is native to North America, where it is widespread across most of C ...

'' Vasey – timber oatgrass, intermediate oatgrass – western United States, Canada, Russian Far East * ''

Danthonia malacantha ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' (Steud.) Pilg. – Chile incl Juan Fernández Is * ''

Danthonia melanathera ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' (Hack.) Bernardello – Argentina * ''

Danthonia montevidensis ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Hack. & Arechav. – Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay * ''

Danthonia parryi ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

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Danthonia rhizomata ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Swallen – Brazil, Uruguay * ''

Danthonia rugoloana ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Sulekic – Salta * ''

Danthonia secundiflora ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and American plants in the grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names include heathgrass ...

'' J.Presl – from Mexico to Uruguay * ''

Danthonia sericea ''Danthonia'' is a genus of Eurasian, North African, and Americas, American plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Members of this genus are sometimes referred to as oatgrass, but that common name is not restricted to this genus. Other common names ...

'' Nutt. – eastern + central United States * '' Danthonia spicata'' (L.) Roem. & Schult. – poverty oatgrass, poverty grass – from Alaska + Greenland to Veracruz * ''

Danthonia unispicata ''Danthonia unispicata'' is a species of grass known by the common name onespike oatgrass, or onespike danthonia. It is sometimes treated as a variety of ''Danthonia californica'', to which it is similar. It is native to western North America, w ...

'' (Thurb.) Munro ex Macoun – onespike oatgrass – ALB BC

WA ID MT OR WY SD UT NV CA ; Formerly included A number of species which were formerly classified under ''Danthonia'' are now included in ''

Amphibromus ''Amphibromus'' is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae. Most are known as swamp wallaby grass.Thieret, J. W''Amphibromus''. Grass Manual. Flora of North America.Astrebla'', ''

Chionochloa ''Chionochloa'' is a genus of tussock grass in the family Poaceae, found primarily in New Zealand with one known species in New Guinea and another on Lord Howe Island (part of Australia). Some of the species are referred to as snowgrass. Most of ...

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Joycea ''Rytidosperma'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Is ...

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Plinthanthesis ''Plinthanthesis'' is a genus of Australian plants in the grass family.Ausgrass2, Grasses of Aus ...

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