Taxon: Achnatherum hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth

Common names:

• Indian ricegrass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• mountain-rice   (Source: Websters Dict [as Oryzopsis hymenoides]) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Intermt F, as Oryzopsis hymenoides; F Utah ed2, as Stipa hymenoides)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Kansas [w.], Minnesota [w.], Nebraska [w.], North Dakota [w.], Oklahoma, South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana [w.], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah

References:

• Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. [= Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper].
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [= Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper].
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• 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.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. [= Stipa hymenoides Roem. & Schult.].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. [= Oryzopsis hymenoides].

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Achnatherum hymenoides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Achnatherum hymenoides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Achnatherum hymenoides.

Synonyms:

• (=) Eriocoma cuspidata Nutt.
  
• (≡) Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper
  (previously associated with 77 accessions)
• (≡) Stipa hymenoides Roem. & Schult. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Achnatherum hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Barkworth:

• 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
• 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.
• Caryopses: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Caryopses: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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