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Aliens of the Cape Peninsula

A quick guide to aliens recorded as naturalized on the Cape Peninsula

As guides can only do 500 species the list stops in "Solanum" and 80 species are omitted (this is our short list: there are over 800 species known at present).

pacific bent grass 1
Agrostis avenacea
Aira cupaniana
Marram Grass 2
Ammophila arenaria
sweet vernal grass 3
Anthoxanthum odoratum
tall oat grass 4
Arrhenatherum elatius
slender wild oat 5
Avena barbata
wild oat 6
Avena fatua
Oat 7
Avena sativa
Winter Wild-oat
Avena sterilis ludoviciana
Animated Oat
Avena sterilis sterilis
purple false-brome 8
Brachypodium distachyon
Greater Quaking Grass 9
Briza maxima
Little quaking-grass 10
Briza minor
Rescue Brome 3
Bromus catharticus
great brome 11
Bromus diandrus
soft brome
Bromus hordeaceus molliformis
Fern-grass
Catapodium rigidum
bristly dogtail grass 12
Cynosurus echinatus
cock's-foot 13
Dactylis glomerata
nit grass
Gastridium phleoides
thintail grass 14
Hainardia cylindrica
Yorkshire fog 15
Holcus lanatus
wall barley (ssp. murinum)
Hordeum murinum murinum
Barley 16
Hordeum vulgare
Hare's Tail Grass 17
Lagurus ovatus
goldentop grass 18
Lamarckia aurea
Italian Ryegrass 12
Lolium multiflorum
Perennial Ryegrass 8
Lolium perenne
Mediterraean Rye-grass 12
Lolium rigidum
Darnel
Lolium temulentum
Nassella Tussock 19
Nassella trichotoma
Periballia minuta
Timothy Canarygrass
Phalaris angusta
harding grass 20
Phalaris aquatica
canary grass 11
Phalaris canariensis
Lesser Canary Grass 11
Phalaris minor
Annual Meadow-grass 21
Poa annua
Smooth Meadow-grass 11
Poa pratensis
rabbitfoot grass 22
Polypogon monspeliensis
water beard grass 23
Polypogon viridis
Borrer's Saltmarsh-grass 24
Puccinellia fasciculata
rye 11
Secale cereale

Edited by Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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