Publication: Fl. Germ. 1: 167. 1806.

Origin: Introduced from n. Africa and Eurasia

selected vouchers: WTU

Notes: FNA25: "Crypsis alopecuroides is common to abundant in sandy soils around drying lake margins in Oregon and southern Washington, and within the last forty years has become widespread in northern California; it is also known from several other western states. It was first collected in the Western Hemisphere in the late 1800s from shipyard areas in and around Philadelphia, but has not been collected in the eastern United States since. In the Eastern Hemisphere, it extends from France and northern Africa to the Urals and Iraq."

References: (none)