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Elymus (genus)
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Elymus is a genus of perennial grasses
in the tribe
which contains many of the main cereal grains. Plants of this genus are known generally as wildrye or wheatgrass. There are at least 150 species in this genus.
Selected species
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
in the tribe
Triticeae
Triticeae is a tribe within the Pooideae subfamily of grasses that includes genera with many domesticated species. Major crop genera are found in this tribe including wheat , barley, and rye; crops in other genera include some for human consumption and others used for animal feed or rangeland...
which contains many of the main cereal grains. Plants of this genus are known generally as wildrye or wheatgrass. There are at least 150 species in this genus.
Selected species
- Elymus alaskanus - Alaskan wheatgrass
- Elymus albicans - Montana wheatgrass
- Elymus californicusElymus californicusElymus californicus is a species of wild rye known by the common name California bottlebrush grass. This grass is endemic to California where it is an uncommon species known from a few counties in the San Francisco Bay Area. It grows between one and two meters in height...
- California bottlebrush grass - Elymus canadensisElymus canadensisElymus canadensis is a species of wild rye known by the common name Canada wild rye. This grass is native to much of North America, being most abundant in the central plains and Great Plains...
- Canada wildrye - Elymus cinereus - Giant wild rye, Basin wildrye
- Elymus elymoidesElymus elymoidesElymus elymoides is a species of wild rye known by the common name squirreltail. This grass is native to most of North America west of the Mississippi River. It occurs in a number of ecosystems, from alpine forest to desert sage scrub to valley grassland.-Description:Elymus elymoides is a perennial...
- squirreltail - Elymus glaucusElymus glaucusElymus glaucus is a species of wild rye known by the common name blue wild rye. This grass is native to North America from Alaska to New York to northern Mexico...
- blue wildrye - Elymus hirsutus - northern ryegrass
- Elymus hystrixElymus hystrixElymus hystrix is a bunchgrass in the grass family, Poaceae.-Description:Elymus hystrix is a herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves, on erect stems. The flowers are white, borne in spring....
- eastern bottlebrush grass - Elymus macrourus - tufted wheatgrass
- Elymus magellanicusElymus magellanicusElymus magellanicus is a clump-forming grass native to South American mountains. It grows 1½-ft. high and wide and has metallic blue leaves. Nearly evergreen in mild climates, it is a good container plant.-External links:*...
- Magellan wheatgrass - Elymus mollis - American dunegrass, dune wildrye
- Elymus multisetusElymus multisetusElymus multisetus is a species of wild rye known by the common name big squirreltail.-Description:Elymus multisetus is native to the western United States where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a perennial grass reaching 60 centimeters in maximum height...
- big squirrelgrass - Elymus repens syn. Elytrigia repens - quackgrass, couchgrass
- Elymus scribneriElymus scribneriElymus scribneri is a species of wild rye known by the common names spreading wheatgrass and Scribner's wheatgrass. It is native to much of the western United States and parts of central Canada where it grows in several types of habitat including alpine mountain peaks.-Description:Elymus scribneri...
- spreading wheatgrass - Elymus sibericus - Siberian ryegrass
- Elymus sierraeElymus sierraeElymus sierrae is a species of wild rye known by the common name Sierra wild rye. It is endemic to the High Sierra Nevada in California and far western Nevada, where it grows in coniferous forest and other mountain habitat generally above in elevation.It is a perennial grass with stems growing 30...
- Sierra wildrye - Elymus stebbinsiiElymus stebbinsiiElymus stebbinsii is a species of wild rye known by the common name Parish wheatgrass. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the forests and chaparral of many of the coastal and inland mountain ranges. It is a perennial grass growing up to 1.2 meters tall. The inflorescence is a narrow,...
- Parish wheatgrass - Elymus trachycaulusElymus trachycaulusElymus trachycaulus is a species of wild rye known by the common name slender wheatgrass. It is native to much of North America, where it grows in widely varied habitats from northern Canada to Mexico....
- slender wheatgrass - Elymus virginicusElymus virginicusElymus virginicus, or Virginia wildrye, is a perennial bunchgrass located in Virginia and the eastern United States....
- Virginia wildrye