Moor Grasses

Molinia, or moor grass, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the grass family, native to damp moorland in Eurasia and northern Africa. They are both herbaceous perennial grasses.

The genus is named after Juan Ignacio Molina, a 19th-century Chilean naturalist.

Species

Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench - (purple moor grass) - Eurasia + northern Africa from Ireland + Morocco to Ethiopia + Kazakhstan; naturalized in parts of United States + Canada

Molinia arundinacea (Schrank) - Native from Georgia to Scotland, primary grows in and around the Alps

formerly included

see Arctophila Catabrosa Cleistogenes Diarrhena Disakisperma Festuca Glyceria Poa Puccinellia Moliniopsis