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Phalaris canariensis; photograph (c) Pavel Kacl, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Pavel Kacl, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-08-30

Phalaris canariensis L.

Canary-grass; Annual canarygrass; Birdseed grass; Seed Canary grass

Poaceae · Morocco, Canary Is.

No habitat climate
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Summary

Canary grass is a plant, Phalaris canariensis, belonging to the family Poaceae. Originally a native of the Mediterranean region, it is now grown commercially in several parts of the world for birdseed.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Canary grass", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeMorocco, Canary Is. · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Azores, Madeira, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Northern Provinces, Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, Altay, Irkutsk, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Gulf States, China North-Central, China Southeast, Xinjiang, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, New Guinea, Norfolk Is., New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Chatham Is., New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Hawaii, Alaska, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Arizona, California, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica, Honduras, Bermuda, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Argentina Northwest, Chile Central, Chile South, Uruguay · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. 1365 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Alex, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Pavel Kacl, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Matthew Elmes, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Phalaris 5 in the reference

Phalaris aquatica Phalaris aquatica Bulbous Canary-grass Photo: CC BY, carsleyPhalaris arundinacea Phalaris arundinacea Reed Canary grass Photo: CC0, author not statedPhalaris caroliniana Phalaris caroliniana Carolina Canary grass Photo: CC0, author not statedPhalaris minor Phalaris minor Lesser Canary-grass Photo: CC BY, Sula VanderplankPhalaris paradoxa Phalaris paradoxa Awned Canary-grass Photo: CC BY, Antoine Thivolle

Names & registers

Also known as Phalaris avicularis; Phalaris canariensis f. bracteata; Phalaris canariensis f. colorata; Phalaris canariensis f. vivipara; Phalaris canariensis subsp. bracteata and 14 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Phalaris aquatica Delile and Phalaris aquatica Delile ex Boiss. is an older name of this species, not Phalaris aquatica, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Morocco, Canary Is.
Wild records
2 in range · 0 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 38 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (22 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a herbarium, 14 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Canary grass, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q2086586)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 191 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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