Taxon: Elymus glaucus Buckley

Genus:

Elymus

Family:

Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)

Subfamily:

Pooideae

Tribe:

Triticeae

Subtribe:

Hordeinae

Nomen number:

15050

Place of publication:

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1862[14]:99. 1862

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

07-nov-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 05-mar-2015

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

See other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Elymus angustifolius Burtt Davy

Common names:

blue wild rye (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
common western wild rye (Source: F NAmer) - English

Economic Importance:

Animal food: fodder (fide AH 170)
Animal food: forage (fide Food Feed Crops US)
Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 2:78. 2011)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

SUBARCTIC AMERICA: Canada, [Northwest Territory (s.w.), Yukon Territory] United States [Alaska (s.)]
EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario (s.)]
WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan (s.), Alberta (s.), British Columbia]
NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Michigan (n.), New York (w.)]
NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois (n.e.), Missouri (n.), North Dakota (n.-c.), Oklahoma (e.), South Dakota (w. & n.e.), Wisconsin (n.)]
NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arkansas]
SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah]
NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Baja Norte]

References:

FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
Gould, F. W. & R. Moran The grasses of Baja California, Mexico. 1981 (Grass Baja)
Hanson, A. A. Grass varieties in the United States. 1972 (AH 170)
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys (Wild Crop Rel Cer) 77-108.

Check other web resources for Elymus glaucus Buckley :

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=15050. Accessed 18 mayo 2024.