Foxtail or fox tail may refer to:

Plants

Foxtail (diaspore) A foxtail is a spikelet or cluster of a grass, that serves to disperse its seeds as a unit. Thus, the foxtail is a type of diaspore or plant dispersal unit. Some grasses that produce a foxtail are themselves called "foxtail", also " spear g ...

, the dry spikelet or spikelet cluster of some grasses ** ''

Alopecurus ''Alopecurus'', or foxtail grass, is a common and widespread genus of plants in the grass family. It is common across temperate and subtropical parts of Eurasia, northern Africa, and the Americas, as well as naturalized in Australia and on vari ...

'', foxtail grasses - the scientific name literally means "fox tail" ** ''

Bromus madritensis ''Bromus madritensis'' is a species of brome grass known by the common name compact brome. The specific epithet ''madritensis'' refers to Madrid, Spain. It has a diploid number of 28. There are two subspecies: *''Bromus madritensis'' subsp. ''m ...

'', foxtail brome ** ''

Hordeum jubatum ''Hordeum jubatum'', with common names foxtail barley, bobtail barley, squirreltail barley, and intermediate barley, is a perennial plant species in the grass family Poaceae. It occurs wild mainly in northern North America and adjacent northeast ...

'', foxtail barley ** ''

Setaria ''Setaria'' is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family. The name is derived from the Latin word ''seta'', meaning "bristle" or "hair", which refers to the bristly spikelets. The genus includes over 100 species distributed in many tr ...

'', foxtail millets * ''

Acalypha hispida ''Acalypha hispida'', the chenille plant, is a flowering shrub which belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae, the subfamily Acalyphinae, and the genus ''Acalypha''. ''Acalypha'' is the fourth largest genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, and contains ...

'', chenille plant or fox tail * ''

Asparagus densiflorus ''Asparagus densiflorus'', the asparagus fern, plume asparagus or foxtail fern, is a variable evergreen perennial plant, closely related to the vegetable asparagus. It is native to southern Africa, from Mozambique to South Africa, but is widel ...

'', foxtail fern * ''

Lycopodium clavatum ''Lycopodium clavatum'' (common club moss, stag's-horn clubmoss, running clubmoss, or ground pineBailey, L.H.; Bailey, E.Z.; the staff of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. ''Hortus third: A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the Un ...

'', foxtail clubmoss * ''

Wodyetia ''Wodyetia bifurcata'', the foxtail palm, is a species of palm in the family Arecaceae, native to Queensland, Australia. It is the sole species in the genus ''Wodyetia''. The Palm and Cycads Societies of Australia (PACSOA) describes this palm a ...

'', foxtail palm * ''

Agave attenuata ''Agave attenuata'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, commonly known as the foxtail or lion's tail. The name swan's neck agave refers to its development of a curved inflorescence, unusual among agaves. Native to the plat ...

'', an agave species also known as the Foxtail

Other uses

Foxtail Peak Foxtail Peak () is a peak, high, on the north side of Neumayer Glacier, west of Carlita Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Sur ...

, Antarctica * Foxtail, a character in the animated series ''OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes'' {{disambiguation, plants