Lagurus ovatusL.

Hare's Tail Grass

WFO wfo-0000877496 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Lagurus ovatus, photographed by James K. Douch
fig. a James K. Douch, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204970237
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by realgandy
fig. b realgandy, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205134210
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by desertnaturalist
fig. c desertnaturalist, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205783086
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. d Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200044600
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by etrusko25
fig. e etrusko25, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199691233
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne
fig. f Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201787159
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. g Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195076415
Lagurus ovatus, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. h Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195760798

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 570 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 570 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Imperata ovata Tratt.
  • Lagurus dalmaticus Gand.
  • Lagurus dimorphus Gand.
  • Lagurus freynii Gand.
  • Lagurus humilis Gand.
  • Lagurus longifolius Gand.
  • Lagurus nitens Lojac.
  • Lagurus ovatus subsp. nanus (Guss.) Messeri
  • Lagurus ovatus subsp. vestitus (Messeri) Brullo
  • Lagurus ovatus subsp. vestitus (Messeri) H.Scholz
  • Lagurus ovatus var. glabrilemmis Maire
  • Lagurus ovatus var. globosus Zohary
  • Lagurus ovatus var. nanus Guss.
  • Lagurus ovatus var. subglaber H.Scholz
  • Lagurus ovatus var. vestitus Messeri
  • Lagurus ovatus var. villilemmis Maire
  • Lagurus siculus Lojac.

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.