Molinia

Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa.^[4] They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.^[5][6][7]

Molinia
Molinia caerulea (right)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Arundinoideae
Tribe:	Molinieae
Subtribe:	Moliniinae
Genus:	Molinia Schrank
Type species
Molinia varia Schrank[2]
Synonyms[3]
Monilia A.Gray Enodium Pers. ex Gaudin Graphephorum Honda 1934, illegitimate homonym not Desv. 1810

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.^[8]

Species^[3][9]

• Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada
• Molinia japonica Hack. (Japanese moor grass) - Japan, Korea, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sakhalin, Kuril

formerly included^[3]

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia

• Molinia aquatica - Catabrosa aquatica
• Molinia distans - Puccinellia distans
• Molinia distans var. reptans - Puccinellia maritima
• Molinia fauriei - Diarrhena fauriei
• Molinia fluitans - Glyceria fluitans
• Molinia maritima - Puccinellia maritima
• Molinia maxima - Glyceria maxima
• Molinia olgae - Festuca olgae
• Molinia pendulina - Arctophila fulva
• Molinia plicata - Glyceria fluitans
• Molinia remota - Poa remota
• Molinia retusa - Disakisperma dubium
• Molinia serotina - Cleistogenes serotina
• Molinia spiculosa - Glyceria spiculosa
• Molinia squarrosa - Cleistogenes squarrosa