Milium effusum

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| genus = Milium

| species = effusum

| authority = L.

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Agrostis effusa Lam.
Alopecurus effusus Link ex Kunth nom. inval.
Decandolia effusa (Lam.) T.Bastard
Melica effusa (L.) Salisb.
Miliarium effusum (L.) Moench
Milium adscendens Roxb. nom. inval.
Milium confertum L.
Milium dubium Jacquem. ex Hook.f. nom. inval.
Milium nepalense Nees nom. inval.
Milium transsilvanicum Schur
Milium willdenowii Lojac.
Paspalum effusum (L.) Raspail

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| synonyms_ref = {{cite web

|url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-424434

|title=The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species

|accessdate=March 18, 2014}}

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Milium effusum, the American milletgrass or wood millet, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to damp forests of the Holarctic Kingdom.

The Latin specific epithet effusum means "spreading loosely".{{cite book |last=Harrison |first=Lorraine |title=RHS Latin for Gardeners |year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley |location=United Kingdom |isbn=978-1845337315 }}

Habitat

Milium effusum inhabits damp, deciduous woods and shaded banks, where it grows on winter-wet, calcareous to mildly acidic clay and loam soils, and also over rocks in western Scotland.{{cite web|url=https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/milium-effusum|title=Online Atlas of the British & Irish Flora}}

Distribution

It can be found in the northern United States and Canada,{{cite web|url=https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MIEF|title=Milium effusum|publisher=United States Department of Agriculture|year=2009|access-date=March 29, 2013}} and Europe, including Britain but excluding the Mediterranean, east to Siberia and the Himalayas.{{cite web|title=Plants for a Future|url=https://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Milium+effusum}}

Cultivation

The yellow-leaved cultivar 'Aureum', known as Bowles' golden grass, is cultivated as an ornamental garden plant, and in the UK has won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.{{cite web

| url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91154/i-Milium-effusum-i-Aureum/Details

| title = RHS Plantfinder - Milium effusum 'Aureum' | accessdate=4 April 2018}}{{cite web

| url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf | title = AGM Plants - Ornamental | date = July 2017

| page = 64 | publisher = Royal Horticultural Society | accessdate = 4 April 2018}}

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Milium effusum

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