Taxon: Elymus violaceus (Hornem.) Feilberg

Common names:

• élyme latiglume   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• Arctic wheatgrass   (Source: F NAmer )
  

Economic importance:

• 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, Yukon Territory; Greenland; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario [n.], Quebec [n.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana [w.], Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Nevada

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Elymus violaceus.

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Agropyron latiglume (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) Rydb.
  
• (≡) Agropyron violaceum (Hornem.) Lange
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Agropyron violaceum var. latiglume Scribn. & J. G. Sm.
  
• (=) Elymus alaskanus subsp. latiglumis (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) Á. Löve
  (previously associated with 14 accessions)
• (=) Elymus trachycaulus subsp. latiglumis (Scribn. & J. G. Sm.) Barkworth & D. R. Dewey
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)
• (≡) Elymus trachycaulus subsp. violaceus (Hornem.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (≡) Roegneria violacea (Hornem.) Melderis
  
• (≡) Triticum violaceum Hornem. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other databases for Elymus violaceus (Hornem.) Feilberg:

• 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
• 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.
• Inflorescence: 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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