Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 68 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Europa ad vias.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 21 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1867), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 6(43): 86 [secondary reference]

Woolls, W. (1867), Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 10: 39 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(64): 132 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1877), Inquiry for seeds of grasses and other fodder plants with a list of the grasses of Queensland: 18 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (March 1878), Flora Australiensis 7: 654 [secondary reference]

Tepper, J.G.O. (1880), On the characteristics and distribution of the native and naturalised plants about Ardrossan, Yorke's Peninsula. Transactions, proceedings and report, Royal Society of South Australia 3: 45 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 536 [secondary reference]

Turner, F. (1890), A Census of the Grasses of New South Wales, together with a popular description of each species: 53 [secondary reference]

common name: Goose grass [n/a]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 238 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 271 [secondary reference]

Brown, R. in Britten, J. (1906), Plantae introductae vicinitatis Portus Jackson, in Introduced Plants at Sydney, 1802-4. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 44: 235 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 633 [secondary reference]

Domin, K. (1915), Beitrage zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens. Bibliotheca Botanica 20(85): 410 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 80 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Meadow-grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 10 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 124, Fig. 162 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Meadow-grass [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 106-107 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a] common name: Goose Grass [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 546 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 28 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 99 [secondary reference]

vernacular name: Annual Grass [n/a] vernacular name: Winter Grass [n/a] vernacular name: Goose Grass [n/a] vernacular name: Annual Meadow-grass [n/a]

Vickery, J.W. (7 December 1970), A taxonomic study of the genus Poa L. in Australia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium 4(4): 171-172 [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 133 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Mallow Grass [n/a] common name: Goose Grass [n/a] common name: Annual Meadow Grass [n/a] common name: Annual Poa [n/a] common name: Walkgrass [n/a] common name: Annual Bluegrass [n/a] common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 51 [secondary reference]

Lazarides, M. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Gramineae (Poaceae). Flora of Central Australia: 430, Fig. 552A-B [secondary reference]

common name: annual meadow grass [n/a] common name: goose grass [n/a] common name: Winter grass [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 36 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 141 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter grass [n/a]

Bennett, E.M. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Poaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 981 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Poa [n/a] common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 66 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 108, Fig. 18B [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a] common name: Annual Poa [n/a]

Du Puy, D.J., Telford, I.R.H. & Edgar, E. (1993), Poaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 466-467 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Meadow Grass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Poa. Flora of New South Wales 4: 623 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Poa infirma Kunth legitimate by Kunth, K.S. in Humboldt, F.W.H.A. von, Bonpland, A.J.A. & Kunth, K.S. (1816), Nova Genera et Species Plantarum Edn. Quarto, 1(3): 158 common name: Annual Poa [n/a] common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 454 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 211-213, Fig. 63 [secondary reference]

common name: Wintergrass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 419, fig. 83c-d [secondary reference]

common name: Winter-grass [n/a] common name: Goose-grass [n/a] common name: Annual Meadow-grass [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 430 [secondary reference]

common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Scholz, H.W. (2003), Gramineae flora Southern Aegean islands. Berichte des Institutes für Landschafts- und Pflanzenökologie der Universität Hohenheim / Beiheft 16: 58 [basionym]

basionym of: Ochlopoa annua (L.) H.Scholz legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 347 (fig.) -348 [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Poa [n/a] common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

Walsh, N.G., Weiller, C.M. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Poa. Flora of Australia 44A: 309, Plate 31, Fig. 41C-D APC [secondary reference]

common name: Annual Meadow Grass [n/a] common name: Goose Grass [n/a] common name: Annual Poa [n/a] common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised), HI (naturalised), MI (naturalised)

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 382-383, photos 10-13 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Ochlopoa annua (L.) H.Scholz legitimate common name: Winter Grass [n/a]

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