It is the generic and common name for some 25 species of grass plants in the family Poaceae. The genus name is Alopecurus, from the Greek roots alopes ( fox) and ourus (tail), which defines that : fox tail. It receives other common names, such as: red grass, donkey straw, red straw, fox tail. It is also called fox tail, toad or man beards to another genus of the same family Poaceae, which is the Andropogon, also called Schizachyrium.
ZORRO RABO Granulosus-viscous ramoso shrub toxic to livestock growing in the high or low tropics of Colombia. In the rest of South America is known the fox tail that is an endemic plant for ornamental use because they are rhizomatous pastures that reach up to 3 meters high and reproduce densely. Seed copiously and can produce more than a million seeds during its lifetime
