Taxon: Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.

Genus:

Agropyron

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Hordeinae

Nomen number:

102774

Place of publication:

Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14(1):540. 1770

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

20-may-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 20-nov-2007

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Agropyron cristatum subsp. kazachstanicum Tzvelev
(=) Agropyron deweyi Á. Löve
(=) Agropyron muricatum Fisch. ex Eichw.
(=) Agropyron ponticum Nevski

Common names:

crested wheatgrass (Source: Weed CIBA) - English
desert wheatgrass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
fairway crested wheatgrass (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
fairway wheatgrass (Source: Weed CIBA) - English
agropyre à crête (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
agropyron accrêté (Source: F NAmer) - French
chiendent à crête (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Kammquecke (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
agropiro crestato (Source: Mult Glossary Crops) - Italian
agropiro (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
agropiro crestado (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
kamvete (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
bing cao (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese
žitnâk grebenčatyj (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

Environmental: erosion control (fide Grass VarUSA)
Environmental: lawn/turf (fide Intermt F)
Animal food: fodder (fide Grass VarUSA)
Animal food: forage (fide Grass VarUSA)
Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat (based on hybrid formation with Triticum aestivum by embryo rescue fide Theor Appl Genet 81:315. 1991)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Morocco

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Iran, Turkey
CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tuva]
MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
MONGOLIA: Mongolia
RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye, Amur]
CHINA: China [Heilongjiang, Hebei, Gansu, Qinghai, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Xinjiang]

Europe

MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia
EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain

Cultivated

Asia-Temperate

SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan

Northern America

Canada (w.), United States (c. & w.)

Southern America

WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Peru
SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile

Naturalized

Europe

MIDDLE EUROPE: Czech Republic

References:

Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource). (AgroAtlas)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. 1995 (Grass VarUSA)
CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
Cronquist, A. et al. Intermountain flora. 1972- (Intermt F)
Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
Hanelt, P., ed. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 2001 (Mansf Ency)
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). (Aust Pl Common Names)
International Seed Testing Association A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2. 1982 (Mult Glossary Crops)
Kharkevich, S. S., ed. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East. 1985 (F Russ Far East)
Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. Flora of Siberia (English translation). 2000- (F Siberia)
Li, L. H. & Y. S. Dong 1991. Hybridization between Triticum aestivum L. and Agropyron michnoi Roshev. Theor. Appl. Genet. 81:312-316.
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
Tzvelev, N. N. Zlaki SSSR. 1976 (Grass USSR)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn. :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
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:
Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
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=102774. Accessed 15 mayo 2024.