Taxon: Leymus arenarius (L.) Hochst.

Common names:

• beach wild rye   (Source: Grass VarUSA ) – English
  
• European dune grass   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Elymus arenarius]) – English
  
• lyme grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• rancheria grass   (Source: Hortus 3 [as Elymus arenarius]) – English
  
• sea lyme grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• élyme des sables   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• élyme des sables d'Europe   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• blauer Helm   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Sandhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Strandgerste   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• Strandhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Strandroggen   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• aveia-brava   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• strandråg   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Dict Gard; Buvisindi 8:41-50. 1994)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass USSR)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat   (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 2:78. 2011)
  

Distributional range:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Netherlands
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part [n.]
  Southwestern Europe: France; Spain [n.w.]

• naturalized elsewhere

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).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed.
• Barkworth, M. E. & R. J. Atkins. 1984. Leymus Hochst. (Gramineae: Triticeae) in North America: taxonomy and distribution. Amer. J. Bot. 71:614.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Greipsson, S. & A. J. Davy. 1994. Leymus arenarius. Characteristics and uses of a dune-building grass. Búvísindi 8:41–50.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. [= Elymus arenarius].
• Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:478.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:422.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 77–108. [this review mentioned the diversity of genome constitution in Triticeae, all types (NsXm) found in Leymus able to cross with wheat].
• Yen, C. et al. 2009. Synopsis of Leymus Hochst. (Triticeae: Poaceae). J. Syst. Evol. 47:73.

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Synonyms:

• (≡) Elymus arenarius L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)

Check other web resources for Leymus arenarius (L.) Hochst.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database 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.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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