Taxon: Elymus repens (L.) Gould

See also subordinate taxa:

• Elymus repens subsp. elongatiformis (56 accessions)
• Elymus repens subsp. repens (214 accessions)

Common names:

• couch grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• coutch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• dog grass   (Source: Ency CNatIn ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• quack grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• quick grass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• scutch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• twitch grass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• chiendent   (Source: F NAmer ) – French   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• chiendent rampant   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Agropyron repens]) – French   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• petit chiendent   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Agropyron repens]) – French   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• Ackerquecke   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Agropyron repens]) – German   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• Quecke   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Agropyron repens]) – German   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• grama canina   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Agropyron repens]) – Spanish   [Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  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
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kurile Islands, Magadan [s.], Primorye, Sakhalin
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan
  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; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized in s. Africa, Australia, Canary Is, Mascarenes, New Zealand, North America, & s. South America

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [= Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski].
• Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:484. [= Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski].
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Elymus repens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Elymus repens. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Agropyron elongatiforme Drobow [≡ Elymus repens subsp. elongatiformis]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Agropyron firmum J. Presl [= Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• Agropyron repens (L.) P. Beauv. [≡ Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  (previously associated with 53 accessions)
• (=) Agropyron repens var. bromiforme Schur
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Agropyron repens var. glaucescens Peterm.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Elytrigia elongatiformis (Drobow) Nevski [≡ Elymus repens subsp. elongatiformis]
  
• Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski [≡ Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  (previously associated with 238 accessions)
• Elytrigia repens subsp. elongatiformis (Drobow) Tzvelev [≡ Elymus repens subsp. elongatiformis]
  (previously associated with 59 accessions)
• Triticum firmum (J. Presl) Link [= Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  
• Triticum repens L. [≡ Elymus repens subsp. repens]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Elymus repens (L.) Gould:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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