See other conspecific taxa:

• Elymus repens subsp. elongatiformis (0 accessions)
• Elymus repens subsp. repens (0 accessions)

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Agropyron repens var. bromiforme Schur
• (=) Agropyron repens var. glaucescens Peterm.
• (≡) Agropyron vaillantianum (Wulfen) Trautv.
• (=) Elymus vaillantianus (Wulfen) K. B. Jensen
• (=) Triticum vaillantianum Wulfen

Common names:

• kvickrot  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage;

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Tuva, Yakutia-Sakha, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tyumen]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Kurile Islands, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Amur, Kamchatka, Magadan (s.), Sakhalin]
• CHINA: China [Heilongjiang Sheng, Hebei Sheng, Gansu Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Qinghai Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Nei Mongol Zizhiqu, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, Xizang Zizhiqu]
• EASTERN ASIA: Korea

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.), Pakistan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Spain (incl. Baleares)


Naturalized




Africa

• Africa (s.)

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• North America, United States

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Chile (s.)


Other (exact native range obscure)

References:

1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) URL: www.skud.info
2. Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR) Cambridge University Press. Note: = Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski
3. Davis, P. H., ed. 1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
4. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). Note: = Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski
5. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
6. Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Note: = Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski
7. Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:484. Note: = Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski
8. Mahelka, V. et al. 2005. Genome size discriminates between closely related taxa Elytrigia repens and E. intermedia (Poaceae: Triticeae) and their hybrid. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 40:367-384.
9. Mason-Gamer, R. J. 2008. Allohexaploidy, introgression, and the complex phylogenetic history of Elymus repens (Poaceae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 47:598-611.
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11. Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:297.
12. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea.
13. Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals 77-108. Note: this review mentioned the diversity of genome constitution in Triticeae, all types found in Elymus able to cross with wheat
14. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 2006. Flora of China (English edition). 22:430. Note: = Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex B. D. Jackson
15. 2018. Mid-Atlantic invasive plant species (on-line resource)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=102069. Accessed 18 May 2024.