Polypogon monspeliensis(L.) Desf.

rabbitfoot grass

WFO wfo-0000894716 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205537839
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. b Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201701845
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. c Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201706192
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. d Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202052849
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. e Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194428106
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. f Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200546029
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. g Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203774041
Polypogon monspeliensis, photographed by Mary K. Hanson
fig. h Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194094924

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Flowering n = 380 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 380 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 50 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.

  • Agrostis alopecuroides Lam.
  • Agrostis crinita Moench
  • Agrostis panicea (L.) Aiton
  • Agrostis panicea var. major Aiton
  • Agrostis tenuissima Vest ex Steud.
  • Agrostis triaristata Knapp
  • Alopecurus aristatus Gouan
  • Alopecurus aristatus var. monspeliensis (L.) Huds.
  • Alopecurus aristatus var. paniceus (L.) Huds.
  • Alopecurus monspeliensis L.
  • Alopecurus paniceus (L.) L.
  • Cynosurus paniceus L.
  • Milium paniceum (L.) Host
  • Panicum aristatum Cav. ex Willk. & Lange
  • Panicum tenuissimum Vest ex Steud.
  • Panicum vagum Scop.
  • Phalaris aristata Gouan ex P.Beauv.
  • Phalaris crinita Forssk.
  • Phalaris cristata Forssk.
  • Phleum crinitum Schreb.
  • Phleum crinitum Roxb.
  • Phleum monspeliense (L.) Koeler
  • Polypogon alopecurus Bubani
  • Polypogon crinitus Nutt.

and 26 more.

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.