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
Marram Grass
2
Ammophila arenaria
sweet vernal grass
3
Anthoxanthum odoratum
tall oat grass
4
Arrhenatherum elatius
slender wild oat
5
Avena barbata
Winter Wild-oat
Avena sterilis ludoviciana
Animated Oat
Avena sterilis sterilis
Greater Quaking Grass
8
Briza maxima
Little quaking-grass
9
Briza minor
Fern-grass
Catapodium rigidum
bristly dogtail grass
10
Cynosurus echinatus
cock's-foot
11
Dactylis glomerata
nit grass
Gastridium phleoides
thintail grass
12
Hainardia cylindrica
Yorkshire fog
13
Holcus lanatus
Hare's Tail Grass
14
Lagurus ovatus
goldentop grass
15
Lamarckia aurea
Italian Ryegrass
10
Lolium multiflorum
Perennial Ryegrass
16
Lolium perenne
Mediterraean Rye-grass
10
Lolium rigidum
Darnel
Lolium temulentum
Timothy Canarygrass
Phalaris angusta
harding grass
17
Phalaris aquatica
canary grass
18
Phalaris canariensis
Lesser Canary Grass
18
Phalaris minor
Annual Meadow-grass
19
Poa annua
Smooth Meadow-grass
18
Poa pratensis
rabbitfoot grass
20
Polypogon monspeliensis
water beard grass
21
Polypogon viridis
