Lycurus

Lycurus is a small genus of New World plants in the grass family, native to North and South America.[3][4]

Wolfstails
Lycurus sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Lycurus Kunth
Type species
Lycurus phleoides Kunth[1]
Synonyms[2]
Pleopogon Nutt.

These grasses are known commonly as wolfstails.[5][6][7]

Species[2][8]

• Lycurus phalaroides Kunth - Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina
• Lycurus phleoides Kunth - southwestern + south-central USA (AZ UT CO NM TX OK),[9] northern + central Mexico, Bolivia, Peru
• Lycurus setosus (Nutt.) C.Reeder - southwestern + south-central USA (CA NV AZ UT CO NM TX OK KS), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, San Luis Potosí), northern Argentina

References

1. lectotype designated by Hitchcock, U.S.D.A. Bull. 772: 139 (1920)
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: 141-142
4. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1816. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 1: plate XLV (45) full-page line drawing of Lycurus phleoides
5. Jepson Manual Treatment
6. USDA Plants Profile
7. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
8. Reeder, Charlotte G. 1985. The genus Lycurus (Gramineae) in North America. Phytologia 57(4): 283–291
9. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Lycurus phleoides