USDA ARS United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
  GRIN Taxonomy for Plants
Jump to common names  Jump to economic impacts  Jump to distribution  Jump to references  Jump to synonyms  Jump to links to other online resources  Jump to images

***Please tell us why you value GRIN Taxonomy***

Taxon: Elymus macrourus (Turcz. ex Steud.) Tzvelev

Genus: Elymus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Triticeae.
Nomen number: 102732
Place of publication: Spisok Rast. Gerb. Fl. S.S.S.R. Bot. Inst. Vsesojuzn. Akad. Nauk 18:30. 1970
Name verified on: 08-Nov-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 08-Nov-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • northern wheatgrass   (Source: F NAmer )

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yakutia-Sakha, Yamal Nenets
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Khabarovsk, Magadan
  • EUROPE
    East Europe: Russian Federation - Komi [possibly], Nenets
  • NORTHERN AMERICA
    Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory [w.], Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
    Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [n.]

References:

  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Kharkevich, S. S., ed. 1985. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East. (F Russ Far East)
  • Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000. Flora of Siberia (English translation). (F Siberia)
  • Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:463.
  • Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
More:

Synonyms:


Check other databases for Elymus macrourus (Turcz. ex Steud.) Tzvelev:

  • 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
  • Google 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
| USDA | ARS | GRIN | NPGS | New Search |
Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?102732 (22 November 2009)

Please send us your comments

Close Window

Ctrl P to print