It is the common name for some 25 species of grassy plants in the family Poaceae. It is also known as red grass, fox tail, red straw, fox tail. The genus name of these plants is Alopecurus, from the Greek roots alopes (fox) and ourus (tail), which defines that : foxtail. It is also called foxtail, donkey straw, toad or man beards to another genus of the same family Poaceae, which is the Andropogon, also called Schizachyrium.
