Meadow Fescue (Lolium pratense (Huds.) Darbysh.)

Also known as meadow ryegrass; also classified as Schedonorus pratensis (Huds.) P. Beauv., Festuca pratensis Huds.

This and related taxa have been subject to considerable flux. In the past, this taxon has sometimes been treated as a variety of Festuca elatior L., specifically as Festuca elatior var. pratensis (Huds.) Gillet & Magne. We follow POWO's treatment, which instead lumps it in with this species. The bulk of Festuca elatior has instead been merged into tall fescue (Lolium arundinaceum). The genus Schedonorus is no longer recognized, following 2009 genetic analysis demonstrating that Schedonorus was not monophyletic.