Wheatgrass (disambiguation)
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Wheatgrass may refer to:
  • Wheatgrass
    Wheatgrass
    Wheatgrass is a food prepared from the cotyledons of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum. It is sold either as a juice or powder concentrate. Wheatgrass differs from wheat malt in that it is served freeze-dried or fresh, while wheat malt is convectively dried. Wheatgrass is also allowed to...

    , grass, juice, tablet or powder of the young common wheat
    Common wheat
    Common wheat, Triticum aestivum, is a cultivated wheat species.-Nomenclature and taxonomy of the variety and its cultivars:-Evolution:...

     plant, grown for human consumption
  • Agropyron
    Agropyron
    Agropyron is a genus of grasses , native to Europe and Asia. Species in the genus are commonly referred to as crested-wheat grasses...

    , a genus known as crested-wheat grasses
  • Elymus
    Elymus
    In Greek and Roman mythology, Elymus was the mythical ancestor of the Elymians, natives of Sicily. Elymus was a Trojan, a natural son of Anchises and a brother of Eryx....

    , a genus of wild rye, sometimes called wheatgrass
  • Eremopyrum
    Eremopyrum
    Eremopyrum is a genus of grass in the Poaceae family.-External links:*...

    , a genus in the sub-family Pooideae, known as false wheatgrass
  • Pascopyrum, a genus known as wheatgrass
    • Pascopyrum smithii, a species known as Western Wheatgrass
      Western Wheatgrass
      Pascopyrum is a monotypic genus of grass containing the sole species Pascopyrum smithii, which is known by the common name western wheatgrass. This is a sod-forming rhizomatous perennial grass which is native and common in North America. It grows in grassland and prairie in the Great Plains, where...

  • Pseudelymus, a genus called foxtail wheatgrass
  • Pseudoroegneria, a genus in the sub-family Pooideae, known as wheatgrass
  • Thinopyrum, a genus in the sub-family Pooideae, known as wheatgrass
    • Thinopyrum intermedium
      Thinopyrum intermedium
      Thinopyrum intermedium is a sod-forming perennial grass. It is part of a group of plants commonly called wheatgrass because of the similarity of their seed heads or 'ears' to common wheat...

      , intermediate wheatgrass
      • Wild Triga, name of intermediate wheatgrass grain for human consumption
    • Thinopyrum junceiforme, Russian wheatgrass
    • Thinopyrum ponticum, tall wheatgrass
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