Other conspecific taxa:

• Elymus repens subsp. elongatiformis (0 accessions)
• Elymus repens subsp. repens (1 accessions)

Synonyms:

• (=) 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 (fide F ChinaEng 22:430. 2006)
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 2:78. 2011)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canary Islands]
• 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 [Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha]
• 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, Hebei, Gansu, Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan, Nei Monggol, Xinjiang, Xizang]
• 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 Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
2. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988 (F Turk)
3. Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
4. 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.
5. Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:297.
6. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
7. Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys (Wild Crop Rel Cer) 77-108.
8. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

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://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=102069. Accessed 15 mayo 2024.