Taxon: Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult.

Common names:

• chiendent désertique   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• chiendent du désert   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• crested wheatgrass   (Source: Food Feed Crops US )
  
• desert crested wheatgrass   (Source: F CalifJep )
  
• desert wheatgrass   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• standard crested wheatgrass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; revegetator   (fide F CalifJep; Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Grass VarUSA; Food Feed Crops US)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Kurgan, Omsk, Tuva
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Shanxi, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [s.e.]; Ukraine [e. & Krym]

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [= a syn. of A. cristatum].
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000. Flora of Siberia (English translation). (F Siberia)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics. (CultTropS)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Skvortsov, A. K., ed. 2006–. Flora of the Lower Volga region. (F LowVolga)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Agropyron desertorum.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Agropyron cristatum subsp. desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Á. Löve
  
• (≡) Agropyron sibiricum var. desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Boiss.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Triticum desertorum Fisch. ex Link (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. ex Link) Schult.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Inflorescence: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelet: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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