Taxon: Elymus trachycaulus (Link) Gould ex Shinners subsp. trachycaulus

See other conspecific taxa:

• Elymus trachycaulus (162 accessions)
• Elymus trachycaulus subsp. subsecundus (34 accessions)
• Elymus trachycaulus subsp. virescens (no accessions)

Common names:

• slender wheatgrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• élyme à chaumes rudes   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• agropyre à chaumes rudes   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• agropiro tenue   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide F Utah ed2)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Grass VarUSA)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide AH 170)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of wheat   (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 2:78. 2011)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas

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. & D. R. Dewey. 1985. Genomically based genera in the perennial Triticeae of North America: identification and membership. Amer. J. Bot. 72:769.
• Barkworth, M. E. et al. 1983. New generic concepts in the Triticeae of the Intermountain Region: keys and comments. Great Basin Naturalist 43:566.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hanson, A. A. 1972. Grass varieties in the United States. [= Agropyron trachycaulum].
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:302.
• Sun, G. et al. 2006. Molecular diversity and relationships among Elymus trachycaulus, E. subsecundus, E. virescens, E. violaceus, and E. hyperacticus (Poaceae:Triticeae) as determined by amplified fragment length polymorphism. Genome 49:1160–1169. [this study included two USDA accessions (PI 564994-95)].
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• 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 found in Elymus able to cross with wheat].
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.

Synonyms:

• (=) Agropyron novae-angliae Scribn.
  
• (=) Agropyron pauciflorum (Schwein.) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Agropyron tenerum Vasey
  (previously associated with 21 accessions)
• (=) Agropyron trachycaulum (Link) Malte ex H. F. Lewis
  (previously associated with 51 accessions)
• (=) Elymus novae-angliae (Scribn.) Tzvelev
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Elymus pauciflorus (Schwein.) Gould
  
• (=) Roegneria trachycaula (Link) Nevski
  
• (=) Triticum pauciflorum Schwein.
  
• (=) Triticum trachycaulum Link
  

Check other web resources for Elymus trachycaulus (Link) Gould ex Shinners subsp. trachycaulus:

• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

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

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• 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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