Taxon: Pascopyrum smithii (Rydb.) Barkworth & D. R. Dewey

Genus:

Pascopyrum

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Hordeinae

Nomen number:

102367

Place of publication:

Amer. J. Bot. 72:772. 1985 (Á. Löve, Taxon 29:168, 547. 1980, nom. inval.)

Link to protologue:

Comment:

Löve failed to provide a description or diagnosis on p. 168, so the genus Pascopyrum was not validly published until a later issue (p. 547), when he then failed to fully cite a basionym for P. smithii

Typification:

Name Verified on:

09-nov-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-mar-2017

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

(=) Agropyron glaucum var. occidentale Scribn.
(=) Agropyron occidentale (Scribn.) Scribn.
Basionym: Agropyron smithii Rydb.
(=) Agropyron smithii var. molle (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) M. E. Jones
(=) Agropyron spicatum var. molle Scribn. & J. G. Sm.
(≡) Elymus smithii (Rydb.) Gould
(≡) Elytrigia smithii (Rydb.) Á. Löve

Common names:

western wheatgrass (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
agropiro dell'Ovest (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian

Economic Importance:

Environmental: erosion control (fide Grass VarUSA)
Environmental: revegetator (fide Grass VarUSA)
Animal food: fodder (fide Grass VarUSA)
Animal food: forage (fide Grass VarUSA)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario (w.)]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbia]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Michigan]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California (n.), Nevada, Utah]

Naturalized

Northern America

North America (e.)

References:

Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. 1995 (Grass VarUSA)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
International Seed Testing Association A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982 (Mult Glossary Crops)

Check other web resources for Pascopyrum smithii (Rydb.) Barkworth & D. R. Dewey :

PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

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=102367. Accessed 16 mayo 2024.