''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of

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 grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

common across

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, Australia,

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, and the

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. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial

rhizomatous In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

grasses found in wet areas in temperate regions worldwide. The base of the grass grows along the ground and may root at several places. Then it grows erect and bears leaf blades which may be flat or folded. The

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

inflorescences nod when heavy. Some mannagrasses are considered weeds while others are endangered in their native habitats.Whipple, I. G. et al. (2007)
Molecular insights into the taxonomy of ''Glyceria'' (Poaceae: Meliceae) in North America.
American Journal of Botany 94(4) 551-57.Rodionov, A. V., et al. (2013)
Variability of the ITS1-5.8 S rDNA-ITS2 sequence during the divergence of sweet-grass species (''Glyceria'' R.Br.).
Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research 3(2) 83-90. ; Species * '' Glyceria acutiflora'' - creeping mannagrass - China, Korea, Japan, northeastern + east-central USA * ''

Glyceria alnasteretum ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

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Glyceria × amurensis ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

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Glyceria arkansana ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatou ...

'' - Arkansas mannagrass - south-central USA * ''

Glyceria arundinacea ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Eurasia from Hungary to Korea * ''

Glyceria australis ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Australian sweetgrass - Australia * '' Glyceria borealis'' - northern mannagrass - western, north-central, + northeastern USA incl Alaska; Canada incl Yukon + Northwest Territories; Mexico ( Chihuahua) * ''

Glyceria canadensis ''Glyceria canadensis'' is a species of grass in the genus ''Glyceria'' which is known by the common name rattlesnake mannagrass. It is native to North America, from British Columbia to Newfoundland and south to North Carolina. It is commonly f ...

'' - rattlesnake mannagrass, Canadian mannagrass - Canada; USA (Northeast, Great Lakes, Oregon, Washington) * ''

Glyceria caspia ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

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Glyceria chinensis ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - China (

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Glyceria colombiana ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Colombia * ''

Glyceria declinata ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - waxy mannagrass, low glyceria, small sweet-grass - Europe, Morocco,

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, Canary Islands; naturalized in scattered locales in North America * ''

Glyceria depauperata ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Japan,

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* '' Glyceria × digenea'' - France, Czech Republic * ''

Glyceria drummondii ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Western Australia * '' Glyceria elata'' - tall mannagrass - western USA, British Columbia, Alberta * ''

Glyceria fluitans ''Glyceria fluitans'' ( syns ''Festuca fluitans'', ''Poa fluitans'', ''Panicularia fluitans''), known as floating sweet-grass and water mannagrass, is a species of perennial grass in the genus ''Glyceria'' native to Europe, the Mediterranean re ...

'' - water mannagrass, floating sweet-grass - Morocco; Eurasia from Iceland + Portugal to Turkmenistan * '' Glyceria × gatineauensis'' - Québec, New York, West Virginia * ''

Glyceria grandis ''Glyceria grandis'' is a species of grass known by the common name American mannagrass. It is native to Canada and the United States, where it is widespread in distribution. It is most commonly found in wet areas such as riverbanks and ponds. D ...

'' - American mannagrass - USA incl Alaska; Canada incl Yukon + Northwest Territories * '' Glyceria insularis'' -

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Glyceria ischyroneura ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

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, Korea * '' Glyceria latispicea'' -

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Glyceria leptolepis ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Russian Far East, China incl Taiwan, Korea, Japan * ''

Glyceria leptorhiza ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Korea,

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* '' Glyceria leptostachya'' - davy mannagrass, narrow mannagrass - California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska * ''

Glyceria lithuanica ''Glyceria lithuanica'' is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It is native to Eurasia. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q311917 lithuanica ...

'' - Lithuanian mannagrass - northern Eurasia from Norway to Korea * ''

Glyceria maxima ''Glyceria maxima'' (syn. ''G. aquatica'' (L.) Wahlenb.; ''G. spectabilis'' Mert. & W.D.J. Koch; ''Molinia maxima'' Hartm.; ''Poa aquatica'' L.), commonly known as great manna grass, reed mannagrass, reed sweet-grass, and greater sweet-grass is a ...

'' - reed mannagrass, English watergrass, reed sweet-grass - Eurasia from Ireland to

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Glyceria melicaria ''Glyceria melicaria'', the melic mannagrass or northeastern mannagrass, is a perennial grass found in the eastern United States. Its specific epithet ''melicaria'' means "similar to '' Melica''". Its diploid number is 40. Description ''Glyceri ...

'' - melic mannagrass - eastern North America * '' Glyceria multiflora'' - Chile, Argentina, Uruguay,

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, Santa Catarina * '' Glyceria nemoralis'' - Caucasus, central + eastern Europe * '' Glyceria notata'' - marked glyceria, plicate sweet-grass - Eurasia + North Africa from Denmark + Morocco to

* '' Glyceria nubigena'' - Great Smoky Mountain mannagrass -

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Glyceria obtusa ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - Atlantic mannagrass - eastern North America * '' Glyceria occidentalis'' - northwestern mannagrass - California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Idaho, Nevada * '' Glyceria × ottawensis'' -

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* '' Glyceria × pedicellata'' - northern + central Europe * '' Glyceria pulchella'' - MacKenzie Valley mannagrass, beautiful glyceria - Alaska, western Canada incl Yukon + Northwest Territories * ''

Glyceria saltensis ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

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in Argentina * '' Glyceria septentrionalis'' - floating mannagrass - eastern USA, eastern Canada, northeastern Mexico * ''

Glyceria spicata ''Glyceria'' is a widespread genus of grass family common across Eurasia, Australia, North Africa, and the Americas. ''Glyceria'' is known commonly as mannagrass in the United States, or, in the UK, sweet-grass. These are perennial rhizomatous ...

'' - India, Mediterranean * '' Glyceria spiculosa'' - eastern Russia, northern China, Korea * ''

Glyceria striata ''Glyceria striata'' is a species of ''Glyceria'' which is known by the common names fowl mannagrass and ridged glyceria. It is native to much of North America, from Alaska and northern Canada to northern Mexico. It is a common bunchgrass specie ...

'' - fowl mannagrass, ridged glyceria - Canada incl Arctic Territories, USA incl Alaska, Mexico, Guatemala * '' Glyceria × tokitana'' Masamura - Japan * '' Glyceria tonglensis'' C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, China incl Tibet ; formerly included Numerous species now considered better suited to other genera: '' Arctophila

Catabrosa ''Catabrosa'' is a small but widespread genus of plants in the grass family native to temperate areas of Eurasia, the Americas, and a few places in Africa. ''Catabrosa aquatica'' is in flower in Europe from June to August, and the seeds ripen f ...

Colpodium ''Colpodium'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family, native primarily to Asia but with a few species on certain mountains in Africa. ; SpeciesMill, R. R. 1985. ''Eremopoa, Nephelochloa, Catabrosella, Colpodium, Hyalopoa, Catabrosa, P ...

Dryopoa

Eragrostis ''Eragrostis'' is a large and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found in many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands. ''Eragrostis'' is commonly known as lovegrass or canegrass. The name of the genus is derived fr ...

Hydrocotyle ''Hydrocotyle'', also called floating pennywort, water pennywort, Indian pennywort, dollar weed, marsh penny, thick-leaved pennywort and even white rot is a genus of prostrate, perennial aquatic or semi-aquatic plants formerly classified in the f ...

Melica ''Melica'' is a genus of perennial Poaceae, grasses known generally as melic or melic grass. They are found in most temperate regions of the world. Melic grasses are clumping to short-rhizome, rhizomatous Poaceae, grasses. They have culm (bot ...

Phippsia Poa

Puccinellia ''Puccinellia'' is a genus of plants in the grass family, known as alkali grass or salt grass. These grasses grow in wet environments, often in saline or alkaline conditions. They are native to temperate to Arctic regions of the Northern and S ...

Scolochloa ''Scolochloa'' is a genus of grasses in the family Poaceae / Gramineae, now containing a single species, ''Scolochloa festucacea''. Common rivergrass is a common name for the species. ''Scolochloa festucacea'' grows in Europe, temperate Asia, an ...

Torreyochloa ''Torreyochloa'' is a genus of North American and northeast Asian plants in the grass family. False mannagrass is a common name for plants in this genus. ; Species * '' Torreyochloa erecta'' (Hitchc.) Church - western United States ( CA NV OR) ...

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