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CPIE Notebook -Grasses and Sedges of Hawai‘i and Guam INDEX – Page xii

 
Dune grass on Kauai

Listed below are common names for the species of grasses and sedges covered in A Key to the Grasses and Sedges of the Hawaiian Islands and A Key to the Grasses and Sedges of Guam with clickable links to page number(s) for each entry (goes to the couplet on the page number or, if in [italics], an image of the species). Realize that you may need to search a bit for the match to a species. Common names appear in the couplet text near the end. As is expected with common names, an '&' separates two or more species with the same common name in a link reference.

The index listing by species name is found here: Species Index.


A

African Bermuda grass
African bristlegrass
African dropseed
‘Ahaniu
‘Ahu‘awa
‘Aka‘akai
‘aki‘aki
‘aki‘aki haole
Angleton grass
Annual bluegrass
Asian beardgrass
Asian crabgrass
Australian bluestem

B

Bahia grass
Bamboo
Barbed foxtail
Barbedwire grass
Barnyard grass
Basketgrass



12 [12E]
8 [8E]
11
36
32
37
11
10 [20D]
18
14 [4D]
8
7
18



6, 20
3
8 [8C]
5 [E]
5, 17
1 [1E,1F]


Bana grass
Beach dropseed
Beach wiregrass
Beardgrass
Beardless rabbit'sfoot grass
Bermuda grass
Bertero goatgrass
Big quaking grass
Bilen
Black bamboo
Bloodscale sedge
Blue Couch
Bluegrass
Bristly foxtail
Broad-leaved carpetgrass
Broomcorn
Broomsedge
Buddah bamboo
Buffalo grass
Buffelgrass
Bulrush
Burgandy fountain grass
Burgandy giant
Burgrass
Bur-grass


9
11 [11B]
12
15 [15B] [15C]
8
12, 21 [12C] [12D]
10 [10G]
14
4, 2, [4C] [4H,I]
3 [3B]
32
7
14 [4D]
8 [8C]
5 [5G] [5H-I] [20E]
16
15 [15A]
3
10 [21D], 5
9 [8B] [9B]
36
2 & 9
9
10 [10G] & 10 [10B]
9


C

California bulrush
California grass
Carolina lovegrass
Carpetgrass
Centipede grass
Chaguan-agaga
Cheatgrass
Chinese water chestnut
Citronella grass
Cogongrass
Common bamboo
Common velvet grass
Corn
Cocksfoot
Crabgrasses
Creeping bent grass
Creeping kūkaepua‘a
Crowfoot grass
Cupgrass
Couchgrass



37 [36A]
5 [5F]
19
5, 21
10, 21
5 [5A]
16 [16B]
33
2
49
3
14 [14H]
2 [2C]
17
7
14
7
12
5 & 5 [5J]
6

D

Dallis grass
Ditch millet
Ditch polypogon
Dwarf bamboo
Dwarf papyrus

E

Egyptian papyrus
Elephant grass

F

Feather fingergrass
Feathery pennisetum
Fimbriate paspalum
Fingergrass
Fountain grass
Fuzzy top



6 [6A]
6
8
3 [3A] [3B] [3G] & 3
32 & 32



32
2, 9 [9E]



13 [13C]
9 [8A]
6 [6D]
13 [4F] [13A] [13B]
9
19


G

Giant broomsedge
Giant bulrush
Giant reed
Giant star grass
Glenwood grass
Golden bamboo
Golden beardgrass
Goosegrass
Grama
Great bulrush
Green panic grass
Ground-chestnut
Guinea grass



15 [15B] [15C]
37
2 [2B]
12
10 [10D]
3 & 3 [3A] [3B] [3G]
14, 21 [14E]
12
12, 21 [12C] [12D]
37 [37A]
14 [14G]
33
2, 14 [14B, 14G]

H

Hair-grass
Henry's crabgrass
Hedge bamboo
Henon bamboo
Hilo grass
Honan grass

I

Indian dropseed
Inifuk
Italian ryegrass
Itchy crabrass

J

Japanese lovegrass
Japanese mat rush
Jatopa
Job's tears
Johnson grass
Jungle rice



32
7 [J] [7A,B] [7C]
3
3 [3B]
6, 21 [6C]
10, 21



11 [11C]
10 [10E]
14, 21 [14E]
7 [7D]



20
39
11 [11B]
4, 2, [4C] [4H,I]
16 [16C] [14C]
5 [5A]


K

Kalamālō
Kaluhā
Kāmanomano
Kāwelu
Kentucky bluegrass
Kikuyu grass

Kili‘o‘opu
Knotgrass

Kohekohe
Kodo
Kūkaepua‘a
Kūkaepua‘a ‘uka
Kūlina

Kyllinga


20
30 [30E] [30F,G] & 36
9
20
14
4, 9, 21 [4F] [4G][9B] [9F] [20C]
35 [35A, 35B] & 32
6
2 [14A]
33
6
7 [J] [7A,B] [7C] & 7
7
2 [2C]
35 [35A, 35B]

L

Lemon grass
Little quaking grass
Lovegrass
Lyon's grass



2
14 [14I]
20
16


M

Mais
Maize
Mānienie
Mānienie ‘ula

Marsh bent
Ma tai
Mau‘u ‘aki‘aki
Mau‘u
Hilo
Mau‘u hunehune
Mau‘u Kaliponi
Mau‘u kūkaepua‘a
Mau‘u laiki

McCoy grass
Meyen's sedge
Mission grass
Molasses grass



2 [2C]
2 [2C]
12, 21 [12C] [12D]
14, 21 [14E]
14
32
34 [34A] [K]
6, 21 [6C]
21 [21B]
8 [8D]
7 [J] [7A,B] [7C] & 7
6
21 [21B]
32
9 [8A]
16

N

Napier grass
Narrow-leaved carpetgrass
Natal redtop, Natal grass
"Native" bamboo
Neti
Nut grass

O

‘Ohe Hawai‘i



2, 9 [9E]
5
15 [15D]
3
2 [2A]
30



3

P

Palaii
Palmgrass
Pampas grass
Panama grass
Pangola grass
Papyrus
Para grass
Perennial foxtail
Perennial ryegrass
Pili
Pitted beardgrass
Plush-grass
Poverty threeawn
Prairie grass
Pū‘ohe‘ohe
Pu‘uka‘a

Pycreus
Piao lahe
Piao palaoan
Pio titoca

Q

Quack grass
Quaking grass

R

Rabbitfoot grass
Radiate fingergrass
Ragi
Ragi millet
Rattail dropseed



14, 21 [14E]
1 [1D]
2
6 [6D]
7, 7
32
5 [5F]
8 [8D]
10 [K, 4A, 10F]
4 [D]
19 [19A][19B]
13
17
5
4, 2, [4C] [4H,I]
32 & 31
32 [30A] [30D]
3
3
3



14
14 [14I]



8
13
12
12
11

Rattail grass
Red fescue
Rescue grass
Rhodes grass
Ricegrass
Ripgut brome
Ryegrass

S

Sakate
Saltgrass
saltmarsh bulrush
Sand-bur
Saw-grass
Seashore paspalum
Seashore rushgrass
Sheepgrass
Sixweek threeawn
Smooth crabgrass
Smutgrass
Sourgrass
Spanish reed
Spiny bamboo
Sprangletop
St. Augustine grass
Stargrass
Stinkgrass
Sugarcane
Sweet vernalgrass
Swollen fingergrass
Sword grass

11
14
14 [14D] [14F]
13, 12 [12A]
6
16
10



9 [8A]
6 & 11 11B]
30 [30E] [30F,G]
9, 10 [9C]
30
6
11 11B]
20 [20A]
17 [F] [17B]
7
11
7, 15
2 [2B]
3
5
10 [21D]
13
20
2 [14A]
10 [10A]
13 [4F] [13A] [13B]
2 [2A]


T

Tangle-head
Tituka
Toad rush
Torpedo grass
Tropical crabgrass
Tupo, Tupu
Twisted beardgrass

U

Uchaga-lane
‘Uki

Umbrella sedge
Umog



4 [D]
3
39
14
7
2 [14A]
4 [D]



33
30 &35 [35A]
32
12


V

Vasey grass
Violet crabgrass

W

Wainaku grass
Water-nut
Weeping bamboo
West Indian dropseed
West Indian fimbry
Wild cane
Wild oat
Wilder grass
Windmill grass
Wiregrass




6
7



14
33
3 [3H]
11
34
2 [A]
16
18
13
12 (Ha) & 11 [11C] (Gu)


Y

Yellow bluestem
Yellow bristlegrass
Yellow foxtail
Yorkshire fog



15 [15A]
8
8 [8D]
14 [14H]

Z

Zoysia grass



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