Agropyron
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Agropyron
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Agropyron is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.[9]
- Species[2]
- Agropyron badamense - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
- Agropyron bulbosum - Iran[10]
- Agropyron cimmericum - Ukraine, Crimea
- Agropyron cristatum - Crested wheatgrass - Eurasia + North Africa from Spain + Morocco to Korea + Khabarovsk; naturalized in western + central North America (USA, Canada, northern Mexico)
- Agropyron dasyanthum - Ukraine
- Agropyron desertorum - Desert Wheatgrass - from Crimea + Caucasus to Mongolia + Siberia
- Agropyron deweyi - Turkish Kurdistan
- Agropyron fragile - Siberian wheatgrass - from Caucasus to Mongolia; naturalized in scattered locales in western USA + Canada
- Agropyron michnoi - Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia
- Agropyron mongolicum - Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang
- Agropyron × pilosiglume - European Russia
- Agropyron tanaiticum - Ukraine, European Russia
- Agropyron thomsonii - Western Himalayas
- formerly included[2]
species now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.
See also
References
- ↑ illustration circa 1805, Hand-colored copper engraving of Agropyron cristatum, from Icones et descriptiones Graminum austriacorum Vindobonae : A. Schmidt, 1801-1809.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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- ↑ Gaertner, Joseph. 1770. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperalis Petropolitanae 14(1): 539
- ↑ Tropicos, Agropyron Gaertn.
- ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 1, 386, 387, 437 冰草属 bing cao shu Agropyron Gaertner, Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14: 539. 1770
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana genere Agropyron photos and distribution maps for several species
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ↑ US Department of Agriculture plants profile, Agropyron Gaertn., wheatgrass
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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