Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1048 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Habitat in Europae pascuis arenosis.

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 17 [secondary reference]

Woolls, W. (1867), Notes on introduced plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Sydney. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 10: 39 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1873), Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 8(64): 126 [secondary reference]

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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: 51 [secondary reference]

common name: Meadow soft grass [n/a] common name: Yorkshire fog [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]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 266 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 627 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire-fog [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1922), Cyatheaceae - Orchidaceae. Flora of South Australia 1: 73 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1930), Part I. Pteridophyta-Proteaceae. Enumeratio Plantarum Australiae Occidentalis: 9 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1943), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 1: 104 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1952), Gramineae. Flora of Western Australia 1(1): 41 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [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: 539 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 110 [secondary reference]

common name: Velvet Grass [n/a] common name: Meadow Soft-grass [n/a] common name: Tufted Soft-grass [n/a] common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 46 [secondary reference]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 34 [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: Yorkshire fog [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: 963 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Poaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 121-122, Fig. 19G [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McClay, K.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Holcus. Flora of New South Wales 4: 593-594 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Poaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 245, Fig. 79 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Walsh, N.G. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Poaceae. Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 457, Fig. 89e-g [secondary reference]

common name: York-shire Fog [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 419 [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L., Whalley, R.D.B. & Wheeler, D.J.B. (2008), Grasses of New South Wales Edn. 4: 275 (fig.) [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

Weiller, C.M., Jacobs, S.W.L. & Thompson, I.R. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2009), Holcus. Flora of Australia 44A: 137, 139, Plate 12, Fig. 21A-D APC [secondary reference]

common name: Yorkshire Fog [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

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