See other conspecific taxa:

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

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

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

• (=) Agropyron firmum J. Presl
• (≡) Agropyron repens (L.) P. Beauv.
• (≡) Agropyron repens var. repens (L.) P. Beauv.
• (≡) Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski
• (≡) Elytrigia repens subsp. repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski
• (=) Triticum firmum (J. Presl) Link
• Basionym: Triticum repens L.
• (≡) Triticum repens var. repens L.

Common names:

• couch grass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• coutch  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• dog grass  (Source: Ency CNatIn) - English
• quack grass  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• quick grass  (Source: Weed CIBA) - English
• scutch  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• twitch grass  (Source: Weed CIBA) - English
• chiendent  (Source: F NAmer) - French
• chiendent rampant  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• petit chiendent  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Ackerquecke  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Quecke  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• grama canina  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder (as Agropyron repens) forage (as Agropyron repens)
• Food additives:
• Medicines: folklore (as Elytrigia repens) folklore (as Elytrigia repens)
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• 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, Latvia, 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

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canarias]
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: South Africa

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• North America

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile


Other (exact native range obscure)

References:

1. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
2. Davis, P. H., ed. 1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
3. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). Note: = Elytrigia repens subsp. repens
4. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
5. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984-. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. Note: = Elymus repens
6. Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
7. Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
8. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Agropyron repens
9. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea.
10. Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365-380. Note: = Elymus repens
11. USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (on-line resource). URL: http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/quackgrass.shtml target='_blank'
12. Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113-123. Note: = Agropyron repens
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. Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds
15. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). Note: = Elytrigia repens subsp. repens
16. Plants of southern Africa: an online checklist. Note: = Elytrigia repens

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=454279. Accessed 18 May 2024.