Taxon: Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Agropyron cristatum subsp. brandzae (5 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. cristatum (2 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum (46 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum (9 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum (12 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. sabulosum (no accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. sclerophyllum (1 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. tarbagataicum (3 accessions)

Common names:

• crested wheatgrass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• desert wheatgrass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• fairway crested wheatgrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• fairway wheatgrass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• bing cao   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• agropyre à crête   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• agropyron accrêté   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• chiendent à crête   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kammquecke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• agropiro crestato   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• žitnâk grebenčatyj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• agropiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• agropiro crestado   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kamvete   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Environmental: lawn/turf   (fide Intermt F)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat   (based on hybrid formation with Triticum aestivum by embryo rescue fide Theor Appl Genet 81:315. 1991)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tuva
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
  China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Hungary; Slovakia
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Macedonia; Romania; Serbia
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic
• naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada [w.]
  United States [c. & w.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Peru
  Southern South America: Chile

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.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Jiang, J. et al. 1994. Recent advances in alien gene transfer in wheat. Euphytica 73:199–212. [this review recognized both diploid and tetraploid Agropyron cristatum as part of the tertiary gene pool of wheat].
• Kharkevich, S. S., ed. 1985. Vascular plants of the Russian Far East.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Li, L. H. & Y. S. Dong. 1991. Hybridization between Triticum aestivum L. and Agropyron michnoi Roshev. Theor. Appl. Genet. 81:312–316. [mentions hybrids between hexaploid Triticum aestivum and Agropyron cristatum by embryo rescue].
• Limin, A. E. & D. B. Fowler. 1990. An interspecific hybrid and amphidiploid produced from Triticum aestivum crosses with Agropyron cristatum and Agropyron desertorum. Genome 33:581–584. [this study used diploid plants of Agropyron cristatum as pollen donors; hybrids were obtained by embryo rescue].
• Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:431.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Skvortsov, A. K., ed. 2006–. Flora of the Lower Volga region.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:23.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:366.
• Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. Pp. 77–108 in: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Wu, J. et al. 2006. The introgression of chromosome 6P specifying for increased numbers of florets and kernels from Agropyron cristatum into wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 114:13–20.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agropyron cristatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Agropyron cristatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Agropyron cristatum.

Synonyms:

• Agropyron brandzae Pantu & Solacolu [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. brandzae]
  
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. imbricatum (Roem. & Schult.) Á. Löve [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum]
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• Agropyron cristatum subsp. puberulum (Boiss.) Tzvelev [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Agropyron cristatum var. puberulum Boiss. [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum]
  
• Agropyron dagnae Grossh. [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Agropyron deweyi Á. Löve
  
• Agropyron imbricatum Roem. & Schult. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Agropyron karataviense Pavlov [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum]
  
• Agropyron lavrenkoanum Prokudin [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. sabulosum]
  
• (=) Agropyron muricatum Fisch. ex Eichw.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Agropyron pectinatum auct. nonn. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Agropyron pectiniforme Roem. & Schult. [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum]
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)
• "Agropyron pectiniforme var. karabaljikji ined.?" [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum]
  
• Agropyron pinifolium Nevski [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. sclerophyllum]
  
• Agropyron tarbagataicum N. Plotn. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. tarbagataicum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Bromus cristatus L. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. cristatum]
  
• Triticum cristatum (L.) Schreb. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. cristatum]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Triticum imbricatum M. Bieb. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum]
  
• Triticum pectinatum M. Bieb. [≡ Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. pectinatum]
  
• Triticum puberulum (Boiss.) Boiss. ex Steud. [= Agropyron cristatum subsp. pectinatum var. imbricatum]
  

Check other web resources for Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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.
• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

More:

• 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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