See other conspecific taxa:

• Elymus lanceolatus (0 accessions)
• Elymus lanceolatus subsp. psammophilus (0 accessions)
• Elymus lanceolatus subsp. riparius (0 accessions)

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

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

• (=) Agropyron dasystachyum (Hook.) Scribn.
• (=) Agropyron dasystachyum var. dasystachyum (Hook.) Scribn.
• (=) Agropyron elmeri Scribn.
• Basionym: Agropyron lanceolatum Scribn. & J. G. Sm.
• (=) Elytrigia dasystachya (Hook.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
• (=) Elytrigia dasystachya subsp. dasystachya (Hook.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
• (=) Triticum repens var. dasystachyum Hook.

Common names:

• northern wheatgrass  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• thick-spike wheatgrass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder; forage
• Environmental: lawn/turf; revegetator; revegetator

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• SUBARCTIC AMERICA: United States [Alaska (s.e.)]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]


Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

1. Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: Revised version of AH 170
2. 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.
3. Barkworth, M. E. et al. 1983. New generic concepts in the Triticeae of the Intermountain Region: keys and comments. Great Basin Naturalist 43:567.
4. Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora. Note: = Agropyron dasystachyum
5. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
6. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
7. Hanson, A. A. 1972. Grass varieties in the United States Note: = Agropyron riparium
8. Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California
9. Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
10. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
11. Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:292.
12. 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
13. Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.

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=315452. Accessed 18 May 2024.