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

Common names:

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

Economic importance:

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

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
  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. (Grass VarUSA) [= Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper].
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [= Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper].
• 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)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2) [= Stipa hymenoides Roem. & Schult.].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict) [= Oryzopsis hymenoides].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Achnatherum hymenoides.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Eriocoma cuspidata Nutt.
  
• (≡) Oryzopsis hymenoides (Roem. & Schult.) Ricker ex Piper
  (previously associated with 69 accessions)
• (≡) Stipa hymenoides Roem. & Schult. (basionym)
  

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

• 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.
• 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: 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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