Foxtail Grass
Foxtail grass, also known as foxtail barley or wild millet, has a large, heavy seed head that towers above most lawns.
Foxtail lily
Eremurus × isabellinus 'Cleopatra'
Genus: Eremurus
Species: × isabellinus
Cultivar: 'Cleopatra' ...
1. FOXTAIL BARLEY, SQUIRRELTAIL BARLEY, WILD BARLEY
Hordeum jubatum
(grass family) ...
C. alopecuroides is a large sedge is rarely found in wet, disturbed sites in Hillsborough, Polk, and Hardee counties. It is native to the Old and New World tropics. Foxtail flatsedge blooms in the summer (Wunderlin, 2003).
Foxtail Grass
Gardeners pass off most of these hardy, undemanding grasses as weeds and pasture forage. But the variegated strains of Alopecurus pratensis make a colorful ground cover.
Bristly foxtail is an annual grass native to Europe, but widely naturalized world-wide. Culms are prostrate and rising up, 10-100 cm long. Leaf-blades are 5-30 cm long, 4-16 mm wide, flaccid. Leaf-blade surface is glabrous, or pilose.
Missouri Foxtail Cactus
Scientific Name: Escobaria missouriensis (Sweet) D.R.Hunt
Synonym: Mammillaria notesteinii, Coryphantha wissmannii, Mammillaria wissmannii, Neobesseya wissmannii, Escobaria missouriensis var.
Foxtail Fern
Description
Asparagus meyeri is an evergreen arching perennial that has feathery, needle-like, stems. Foxtail Fern is often thought of as a fern but really it is not a true fern, i.e. it produces seeds rather than spores.
Other common names include: Common Horsetail, Horsetail, Bottlebrush, Foxtail, Horse Pipes, Pipe Weed, Jointed Rush, Cat's Tail, Mare's Tail, Pinetop, Pine Grass, Snake Grass, Shave Grass, Paddy's Pipe, Corn Horsetail, Toadpipe (UK), Prê ...
Alopecurus pratensis 'Aureus' Syn.: Alopecurus pratensis 'Variegatus' vernac. Golden foxtail , Meadow foxtail
Surrey, 21 June
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Eremurus robustus (Foxtail lily, Desert candle)
Photo/Illustration: Jennifer Benner
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Foxtail lily, king's spear, desert candle
Eremurus species
Plants of Home and Garden ...
'Iseli Foxtail' (also called 'Foxtail') - The needles at the tips of new branches are much shorter than those at the base, thus the stems resemble "foxtails". The needles are blue and the plant becomes an open tree.
Foxtail palms stand guard outside the old visitor's center at Miami's Fairchild Tropical Garden.
Description
The foxtail palm has one of the most spectacular foliage displays of all palms.
Foxtail or "poker" blossoms create veritable candelabrums for July & August, above the basal leaves of Primula vialii (very commony mispelled P. viallii or P. vialli).
Foxtail lily: (Eremurus) 'Albus', Shelford Hybrids, E. stenophyllus
Gladiolus: 'Friendship' (white), 'Jester' (yellow with red), 'Nova Lux' (yellow), 'Peter Pears' (salmon), 'Priscilla' (pink-white), 'White Prosperity' ...
A. myers 'Foxtail fern' (also called A. densiflorus 'Myers') similar but with plumelike shape to branches, and not as tough in sun
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Acalypha hispida (Cat Tail, Chenille Plant, Red Hot Cattail, Foxtail, Red Hot Poker, Family: Euphorbiaceae)
Acalypha Inferno (Flame Copper leaf, Family: Euphorbiaceae) ...
annual fescue; foxtail fescue; red-tail fescue Vulpia myuros
apple of Peru Nicandra physalodes
apple, crabapple Malus sylvestris
apple-mint Mentha x villosa
aquatic soda apple Solanum tampicense
arabian coffee Coffea arabica ...
Heath, Maiden Pink, Man Orchid, Many-seeded Goosefoot, Many-stalked Spike-rush, Maple-leaved Goosefoot, Mare's-tail, Maritime Pine, Marjoram, Marram, Marsh Arrow-grass, Marsh Bedstraw, Marsh Cinquefoil, Marsh Cudweed, Marsh Dock, Marsh Foxtail, ...
Kniphofia or Hot Poker are similar to Foxtails (Eremurus spp.) and make numerous tubular flowers on showy and ornamental tall flower stalks from a perennial fleshy rootstock. They have nice, grass like foliage in dense rosettes.
Eremurus (foxtail lily)
Eryngium agavifolium (sea holly)
Erythronium dens-canis (dog's tooth violet)
Eschscholzia californica (California poppy)
Eupatorium cannabinum (hemp agrimony)
Euphorbia (spurges)
Fritillaria (fritillaries) ...
The principal varieties are the foxtail, pearl, and barnyard millets and the proso millet, called also broomcorn millet and hog millet. Much millet is grown in China, India, Manchuria, the USSR, and Africa.
These are sometimes called foxtail orchids, because their arching, drooping flower clusters closely set with flowers suggest the furry tail of a fox.
Common summer annual grasses include large crabgrass, goosegrass and giant foxtail. Annual grasses are easy to control if appropriate measures are taken early in the growing season but can quickly become a severe problem if not controlled when small.
In other respects, the tree is like various southwestern "foxtail pines," dense in growth, the shoots set with dark, short needles, five per bundle. The cones which give this species its name are purple-brown and tipped by slender spines or bristles.
Trailing acalypha, plant with small leaves (1-1.5 in long) and unusual foxtail-shaped flowers. Pinch your Acalypha back regularly to keep it bushy and full.
Anthers detached from a Meadow Foxtail flower.
A grass flower head (Meadow Foxtail) showing the plain coloured flowers with large anthers.
Setaria Italica
Millet
Foxtail
Italian millet
Special thanks to Pierre Guertin for assistance with identification.
Acalypha hispida - Chenille Plant, Foxtails
Acalypha wilkesiana - Copper Leaf
ACALYPHA DISEASES ...
Calamagrostis arundinacea brachytricha Grass, Foxtail
perennial, average care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 5a thru 9b ...
Agave attenuata 'Kara's Stripes' PP 19,444 (Perennial Foxtail Century Plant) ...
This specimen, found in southern Georgia, was blooming in mid December. The long spiny looking plant in the photo is Foxtail Clubmoss (Lycopodium alopecuroides) another species associated with bogs.
Soft yellowish green with a golden stripe. This ornamental grass is NOT related to Foxtail barley grass!
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Golden Japanese Forest Grass ...
Today, John has about 200 tree peonies, both Japanese and Chinese and other hybrids. (He also grows herbaceous peonies, delphiniums, roses, shasta daisies and foxtail lilies.) ...
is sometimes coated with a white wax which gives them that bluish look of several of our western trees. The needles persist from 14 to 17 years at the ends of the branches and are held close to the limb giving the pine a common name of "foxtail" pine.
arundinacea var. brachytricha. Also sometimes commonly called foxtail grass, feather reed grass or Korean feather reed grass in reference to the feathery flower/seed plumes. Kemper Center for Home Gardening ...
Foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata)
Furcraea Foetida In the Landscape
Gold Dust Croton
Green Flame Fern
Guzmania Marjan
Guzmania Symphony
Healing Wonders of Alpinia zerumbet 'Variegata'
Heliconia psittacorum Parakeet Flower or Parrot's Beak ...
 See also: Green, May, Grass, Lily, Violet
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