Anthoxanthum australe(Schrad.) Veldkamp

WFO wfo-0000848103 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by carnifex
fig. a carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-05-26 / obs. 18656473
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. b Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73952428
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 73952378
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by carnifex
fig. d carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193467796
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by Ljaž
fig. e Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188983365
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by Ljaž
fig. f Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185010737
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by carnifex
fig. g carnifex, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193467942
Anthoxanthum australe, photographed by Ljaž
fig. h Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188983542

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Anthoxanthum australe is native: Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Ukraine AustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFinlandGermanyHungaryItalyNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Anthoxanthum australe, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Finland FIN
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Avena odorata var. aristata DC.
  • Hierochloe aristata Wulfen
  • Hierochloe australis (Schrad.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Hierochloe australis var. galba Brenner
  • Hierochloe odorata var. aristata (Lam. & DC.) Fiori
  • Holcus australis Schrad.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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