Hare's Tail Grass
Lagurus ovatus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 51 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Poaceae
Also called Harestail Grass, Bunnytail Grass, Bunny Tail Grass, Hare's Tail, Bunnie's Tails
Formerly Lagurus dalmaticus, Lagurus dimorphus, Lagurus freynii, Lagurus humilis, and 2 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Medit. to Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 51 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 1–2 ft; Wikipedia 50–50 cm
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 10–12 in; Wikipedia 30–30 cm
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension white; Wikipedia green
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Lagure ovale, Queue de lièvre, queue de lièvre
- Czech
- zaječí ocásek vejčitý
- German
- Samtgras, Hasenschwänzchen, Hasenschwanz-Gras
- Dutch
- Hazenstaart, hazenstaart
- Norwegian Bokmål
- haresvans
- Finnish
- jänönhäntä
- Russian
- Зайцехвостник яйцевидный
- Italian
- Piumino
- Japanese
- ウサギノオ
- Estonian
- jänesesaba
- Portuguese
- Cauda-de-coelho, Rabo-de-lebre
- Chinese (China)
- 兔尾草
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Lagurus ovatus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.