Agropyron is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.
Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.
Species8- Agropyron badamense - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
- Agropyron bulbosum - Iran
- Agropyron cimmericum - Ukraine, Crimea
- Agropyron cristatum - Crested wheatgrass - Eurasia + North Africa from Spain + Morocco to Korea + Khabarovsk; naturalized in western + central North America (United States, Canada, northern Mexico)
- Agropyron dasyanthum - Ukraine
- Agropyron desertorum - Desert Wheatgrass - from Crimea + Caucasus to Mongolia + Siberia
- Agropyron deweyi - Turkey
- Agropyron fragile - Siberian wheatgrass - from Caucasus to Mongolia; naturalized in scattered locales in western United States + 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
- Agropyron tsukushiense (Honda) Ohwi Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis
- Agropyron tsukushiensevar. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis
species now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.
See also
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Gaertner, Joseph. 1770. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperalis Petropolitanae 14(1): 539 ↩
Tropicos, Agropyron Gaertn. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034604 ↩
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 http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=100844 ↩
Altervista Flora Italiana genere Agropyron photos and distribution maps for several species http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Agropyron ↩
Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Agropyron ↩
US Department of Agriculture plants profile, Agropyron Gaertn., wheatgrass https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=AGROP2 ↩
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451053 ↩
"Agropyron of Iran". Flora of Iran. Retrieved 1 April 2016. http://flora-iran.com/family/Poaceae/Agropyron.html ↩
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"Taxonomy". Germplasm Resources Information Network International Rice Research Institute. Retrieved 2020-12-06. https://gringlobal.irri.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=50033 ↩
"Taxonomy browser (Elymus tsukushiensis)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=129759 ↩
"Elymus tsukushiensis Honda Taxonomy - GRIN-Global Web v 1.10.6.1". International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://mgb.cimmyt.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=15073 ↩
"Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://www.gbif.org/species/4932547 ↩
"Agropyron tsukushiense (Honda) Ohwi - Kew Science". Kew Gardens. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:385317-1 ↩
"Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi". The Plant List. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-388983 ↩
"Taxonomy". Germplasm Resources Information Network International Rice Research Institute. Retrieved 2020-12-06. https://gringlobal.irri.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=50033 ↩
"Taxonomy browser (Elymus tsukushiensis)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=129759 ↩
"Elymus tsukushiensis Honda Taxonomy - GRIN-Global Web v 1.10.6.1". International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://mgb.cimmyt.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=15073 ↩
"Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://www.gbif.org/species/4932547 ↩
"Agropyron tsukushiense (Honda) Ohwi - Kew Science". Kew Gardens. Retrieved 2020-12-06. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:385317-1 ↩
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451053 ↩