Taxon: Leymus triticoides (Buckley) Pilg.

Common names:

• beardless wild rye   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• creeping wild rye   (Source: F Utah ed2 ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat   (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 2:78. 2011)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [w.], Idaho, Montana [w.?], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [w.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte [n.]

References:

• 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. 71:618.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. [= Elymus triticoides Buckley].
• 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.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hanson, A. A. 1994. Grass varieties in the United States.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:482.
• 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].
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. [= Elymus triticoides Buckley].
• Yen, C. et al. 2009. Synopsis of Leymus Hochst. (Triticeae: Poaceae). J. Syst. Evol. 47:82.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Leymus triticoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Leymus triticoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Leymus triticoides.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Elymus triticoides Buckley (basionym)
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Leymus triticoides (Buckley) Pilg.:

• 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 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.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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