Crypsis (genus)
Crypsis is an African and Eurasian plant in the grass family sometimes referred to as pricklegrass.
These are annual grasses with short leaves. A few species are invasive weeds outside their native ranges.
; Species
- Crypsis aculeata - from Portugal and Mauritania to Korea
- Crypsis acuminata - from Turkey to Kazakhstan
- Crypsis alopecuroides - from Portugal and Morocco to Korea; introduced in western North America
- Crypsis factorovskyi - Caucasus, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan
- Crypsis hadjikyriakou - Cyprus
- Crypsis minuartioides - Sharon Plain in northwestern Israel
- Crypsis schoenoides - from Britain to China + Pakistan + Mozambique; introduced in North America
- Crypsis turkestanica - Central Asia, Caucasus, western Siberia, southern European Russia
- Crypsis vaginiflora - Africa; Middle East, India, Pakistan; introduced in North America
; formerly included
see Muhlenbergia Munroa Phleum Rhizocephalus Sporobolus Urochondra
