Details for: PI 590428, Agrostis gigantea Roth, 'FIREBALL'

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Cultivar:

'FIREBALL'

Origin:

Donated – New York, United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

01 Jun 1995

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	200 count		PI 590428 96i SD

Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.

Restrictions
Interstate Shipment Restricted by Federal Seed Act
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/wvcode/code.cfm?chap=19&art=16

USA – West Virginia (in lawn and turf seed and mixtures)

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/StateNoxiousWeedsSeedList.pdf, https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/StateNoxiousWeedsSeedList.pdf https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/StateNoxiousWeedsSeedList.pdf https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIX/Chapter128/Section84

USA – Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia

Restricted in Lawn and Turf Seed and Mixtures
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/StateNoxiousWeedsSeedList.pdf

USA – Delaware

There are no images for this accession.

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Cultivar:

'FIREBALL'

Origin:

Donated – New York, United States

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

01 Jun 1995

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Perennial

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Source History

Donated

13 March 1995.
New York, United States

Donor(s):

van der Grinten, Martin, USDA-SCS

Accession Names and Identifiers

'FIREBALL'

Type: Cultivar name

Group: NRCS

Registered variety name selected by New York PMC

AGGI2

Type: Developer identifier

9051629

Type: Other or unclassified name

Group: NRCS

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Narrative

Cool season, sod forming grass. Strongly rhizomatous with erect base. Winter hardy. Seedling growth rapid with excellent establishment with spring and fall seedlings. Used primarily as component of critical area plantings. Also used as a forage and for use in low maintenance turf. Can be seeded in mixtures with other cool season plants. Adapted to temperate regions of U.S. with adequate rainfall. Tolerates acid soils down to pH of 4.0. Adapted to excessively well drained to poorly drained soils.

Agrostis gigantea Roth

Genus:

Agrostis

Family:

Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Poeae

Subtribe:

Agrostidinae

Nomen number:

2027

Place of publication:

Tent. fl. Germ. 1:31. 1788

Verified:

02/01/2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Agrostis alba L. subsp. gigantea (Roth) V. Jirásek
Agrostis alba L. var. gigantea (Roth) G. Mey.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Agrostis nigra With.
Agrostis stolonifera L. var. major (Gaudin) Farw.

Invalid Designation(s)
Agrostis alba auct. Amer.

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	note	seq	Citation
English	black bent			1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
English	black bent grass			1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	bonnet grass			1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	fiorin			1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
English	redtop			1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English	redtop bent			1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Chinese	ju xu jian gu ying	巨序剪股颖		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
English (Canada)	redtop		Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 35.
French	agrostide blanche			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French	agrostide géante			2	Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union
French (Canada)	agrostide blanche		Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel	2	Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 35.
German	Fioringras			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	Riesenstraußgras			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	weiße Straußgras			2	Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union
Italian	agrostide bianca			2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Spanish	agróstide blanca			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	agróstide mayor			2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	pasto quila			2	Rugolo de Agrasar, Z. E.. & A. M. Molina. 1997. Las especies del género Agrostis L. (Gramineae: Agrostideae) de Chile. Gayana, Bot. 54:104.
Swedish	storven			2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transliterated Russian	polevica gigantskaâ			2	Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Sample Size	Study	Inventory	Availability
GROWTH	Average Grazed Recovery	Sum of plot grazed recovery scores divided by number of plots (e.g. 0 = no recovery; 9 = maximum recovery from grazing). Plot grazed recovery = sum of ratings/initial numbers of live plants.	0.25		GRASS.AGR.2002.ARDMORE	PI 590428 95o SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.018		GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 590428 96i SD