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

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

• Basionym: Agropyron arizonicum Scribn. & J. G. Sm.

Common names:

• Arizona wheatgrass  (Source: F NAmer) - English

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado (s.w.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona (s.)]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Morelos]

References:

1. Barkworth, M. E. & D. R. Dewey. 1985. Genomically based genera in the perennial Triticeae of North America: identification and membership. Amer. J. Bot. 72:768.
2. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
3. Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas Note: = Agropyron arizonicus Scribn. & J. G. Sm.
4. Herrera-Arrieta, Y. & A. Cortés-Ortiz. 2009. Diversidad y distribución de las Gramíneas (Poaceae) en el Estado de Zacatecas. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 3:775-792.
5. Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2. Note: = Agropyron arizonicum
6. Okito, P. et al. 2009. A Y genome specific STS marker in Pseudoroegneria and Elymus species (Triticeae: Gramineae). Genome 52:391-400.
7. Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:282.
8. 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 able to cross with wheat

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=314080. Accessed 18 May 2024.