[*Agropyron caninum (L.)
Beauv.] AWNED WHEAT-GRASS, COUCH-GRASS. "Goat Island," Day (1888).
"Macoun ... 'woods, Niagara Falls (Macoun). Cat. Can. Pls. IV p.
241," Heimburger (1955). Ontario, Queen Victoria Park, Panton (1890).
Ontario, Niagara Park System, Cameron (1895). var. tenerum (Vasey) Pease
& Moore, "... has been found along ... Niagara gorge (Johnson),"
Zenkert, 1934.
Not listed for the Niagara Frontier Region by
Zander and Pierce (1979). Mitchell (1986) does report it for New York State, as
a rare introduction. Dore and McNeill (1980) report this "common species
of northern Europe" as absent from the Ontario flora. Specimens identified
before the 1930's as this species should be checked with A. trachycaulum.
See Malte (1932).
*Agropyron repens (L.) Beauv. QUACK, COUCH, QUITCH or
QUICK GRASS. "Roadsides near Clifton, Ontario," Day (1888). Ontario,
Niagara Park System, Cameron (1895). Ontario: Niagara, William Scott, July 11,
1898, Heimburger (1955).
New York: old
train bed, , upper, disturbed soils, with Aster ericoides, A. simplex, A.
novae-angliae, Solidago canadensis, Eckel
& Zander 110785 (BUF); crest of the gorge by Lower Arch Bridge, Weedy
area of escaped ornamentals, Eckel
8604082 (BUF); Goat Island in the Niagara River, flats of dolomite bedrock, SW
end of island, rachis with some ascending hairs + awns suggest fo.pilosa (Scribn.)
Fern.P. M. Eckel & R.H. Zander 880770 July 17, 1988 (BUF); Lewiston
Bluffs of the Niagara River gorge overlooking the river and
Queenston at its N terminus beside Robt Moses Pkwy. Escarp. top, dense weedy
shrubs, Lonicera tartarica, Ligustrum vulgaris. P. M. Eckel s.n.
June 19, 2001 (BUF).
Ontario: Navy
Island, beach, west island margin, Eckel, July 15, 1998 (BUF); north west and
northern river margins, Eckel, July 15, 1998 (BUF).
fo. *aristatum (Schum.) Holmb. New York:
Goat Island, moist area just E of vehicular bridge, Eckel, June 15, 1987 (BUF).
This specimen is provided with awns 7 - 8
mm in length.
Agropyron trachycaulum (Link.) Malte
var. trachycaulum ROUGH-STEMMED
WHEATGRASS. (As A. caninum var. tenerum), Panton (1890).
(As A. caninum var. tenerum) "... Niagara gorge
(Johnson)...," Zenkert (1934).
New York: (as
var. glaucum (Pease & Moore) Malte), Base of Goat Island on the Niagara
River.Open talus slopes, lower river margin. Locally abundant on dolomite boulder
tops.P.M. Eckel July 28, 1988 (BUF).
var. unilaterale (Cassidy) Malte.
ROUGH-STEMMED WHEAT-GRASS. New York: base of Goat Island, abundant, Eckel, July
28, 1988 (BUF).
"... a grass most characteristic of the
boreal forest region," according to Dore and McNeill (1980). See Zenkert
(1934) and Rhodora 35: 161. 1933.