Taxon: Elymus canadensis L.

Common names:

• élyme du Canada   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• Canada wild rye   (Source: Food Feed Crops US )
  
• centeio-silvestre-do-Canadá   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• Great Plains wild rye   (Source: F NAmer )
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Proc E Nat Grass Sym)
  
• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US; NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Intermt F)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory [s.w.]; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec [s.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia [s.], Manitoba [s.], Saskatchewan [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [n.], Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Chase, A. & C. D. Niles, comps. 1962. Index to grass species. (Smiths Grass)
• Chester, E. W. et al. 1993–. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants. (Atlas Tenn)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Englert, J. 1999. New and upcoming native grass releases from the Eastern US Plant Materials Centers. In: Ritchie, J. C. et al., eds., Proceedings of the Second Eastern Native Grass Symposium, November 17-19, 1999. Baltimore, Maryland. (Proc E Nat Grass Sym) 2:132.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Gustafson, J. P. Gene Manipulation.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2) [with two varieties].
• Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:451.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains. (Atlas GPlains)
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains. (F GPlains)
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16. (Grass Util Mex)
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Elymus canadensis.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Elymus philadelphicus L.
  

Check other databases for Elymus canadensis L.:

• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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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