Agropyron
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| Agropyron cristatum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Triticodae |
| Tribe: | Triticeae |
| Genus: |
Agropyron Gaertn. |
| Type species | |
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Agropyron cristatum |
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| Synonyms | |
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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.
Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.
- Species
- 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 tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis
- formerly included
species now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.