font settings and languages

Font Size: Large | Normal | Small
Font Face: Verdana | Geneva | Georgia
Languages:

Elymus virginicus var. virginicus

(Virginia Wild Rye)

Interesting Facts

[ Back to top ]
 

Common Names

[ Back to top ]

Common Names in English:

Virginia Wild Rye, Virginia Wildrye

Description

[ Back to top ]

Genus Elymus

Plants perennial , usually tufted , usually without, rarely with, rhizomes. Culms usually erect . Leaf sheath of cauline leaves split almost to base ; auricles present or absent; leaf blade flat or rolled. Spike erect to nodding . Spikelets 1 or 2(4) per node, sessile, rarely very shortly pedicellate , appressed to rachis, clearly laterally compressed , usually all similar, with 210 or more florets ; rachis tough. Glumes opposite or side-by-side, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, firmly membranous to leathery, 19(11) -veined, not keeled , apex obtuse to shortly awned ; veins ± raised. Lemma lanceolate-oblong, rounded abaxially, 5-veined, ± pubescent , apex obtuse or acute to awned, rarely toothed ; veins connivent at apex; awn erect or reflexed . Palea shorter than or equaling lemma, apex retuse , subrounded, or acute. Caryopsis usually adherent to lemma and palea. x = 7.

About 170 species:temperate regions of both hemispheres, mainly in Asia; 88 species (62 endemic) in China.

The genus Roegneria should be referred to Elymus because of their many common characters, e.g. , plants usually tufted; spikelets usually all similar, 1 per node; lemma lanceolate-oblong, rounded abaxially, 5-veined, veins connivent at apex.[1]

Taxonomy

[ Back to top ]

Synonyms

Elymus australis Scribn. & Ball • Elymus glabriflorus (Vasey) Scribn. & Ball • Elymus glabriflorus var. australis (Scribn. & Ball) J. J. Campbell • Elymus hirsutiglumis Scribn. • Elymus jejunus (Ramaley) Rydb. • Elymus striatus Willd. • Elymus virginicus var. australis (Scribn. & Ball) A. S. Hitchc. • Elymus virginicus var. glabriflorus (Vasey) Bush • Elymus virginicus var. hirsutiglumis (Scribn.) A. S. Hitchc. • Elymus virginicus var. intermedius (Vasey) Bush • Elymus virginicus var. jejunus (Ramaley) Bush

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

[ Back to top ]

Members of the genus Elymus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 85 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

Elymus alaskanus alaskanus (Alaskan Wheatgrass) · Elymus alaskanus latiglumis (Alaskan Wheatgrass) · Elymus alaskanus subsp. latiglumis (Alaskan Wheatgrass) · Elymus albicans (Montana Wheatgrass) · Elymus arizonicus (Arizona Wheatgrass) · Elymus bakeri (Baker's Wheatgrass) · Elymus calderi (Yukon Wheatgrass) · Elymus californicus (California Bottlebrush Grass) · Elymus canadensis (Canada Wild Rye) · Elymus canadensis var. canadensis (Canada Wildrye) · Elymus caninus (Bearded Wheatgrass) · Elymus ciliaris (Wildrye) · Elymus dahuricus (Dahurian Wild Rye) · Elymus diversiglumis (Diverseglume Wildrye) · Elymus dorei (Dore's Wildrye) · Elymus elymoides brevifolius (Bottle-Brush Squirrel-Tail) · Elymus elymoides hordeoides (Bottlebrush Squirreltail) · Elymus elymoides subsp. brevifolius (Squirreltail) · Elymus elymoides subsp. californicus (Squirreltail) · Elymus elymoides subsp. hordeoides (Desert Squirreltail) · Elymus europaeus (Wood-Barley) · Elymus glaucus (Blue Wild Rye) · Elymus glaucus virescens (Blue Wild Rye) · Elymus glaucus subsp. jepsonii (Jepson's Blue Wildrye) · Elymus glaucus subsp. virescens (Blue Wildrye) · Elymus gmelinii (Wildrye) · Elymus hanseni (Hansen Squirreltail) · Elymus hansenii (Hansen Squirreltail) · Elymus hirsutus (Alaska Wild-Rye) · Elymus hoffmannii (Rs Wheatgrass) · Elymus hyperarcticus (Tundra Wildrye) · Elymus hystrix (Bottle-Brush Grass) · Elymus hystrix var. bigeloviana (Bottlebrush Grass) · Elymus hystrix var. hystrix (Eastern Bottle-Brush Grass) · Elymus interruptus (Texas Wildrye) · Elymus kronokensis (Arctic Wheatgrass) · Elymus kronokensis subsp. subalpinus (Northern Wheatgrass) · Elymus lanceolatus (Streambank Wheatgrass) · Elymus lanceolatus lanceolatus (Streambank Wheatgrass) · Elymus lanceolatus psammophilus (Streambank Wheatgrass) · Elymus lanceolatus subsp. psammophilus (Streambank Wheatgrass) · Elymus latiglumis (Alaskan Wheatgrass) · Elymus macrourus (Thickspike Wheatgrass) · Elymus magellanicus (Blue Lyme Grass) · Elymus maltei (Malt Wildrye) · Elymus mossii (Moss' Wildrye) · Elymus multisetus (Big Squirrel-Tail) · Elymus palmerensis (Palmer's Wildrye) · Elymus pendulina (Wildrye) · Elymus pinaloensis (Pinalo Wildrye) · Elymus pseudorepens (Creeping Wildrye) · Elymus repens (Couchgrass) · Elymus repens repens (Couch-Grass) · Elymus riparius (River Wild-Rye) · Elymus saundersii (Saunder Wildrye) · Elymus scaber (Common Wheat-Grass) · Elymus scribneri (Schribner Wheatgrass) · Elymus semicostatum (Drooping Wild Rye) · Elymus sibiricus (Siberian Wild-Rye) · Elymus sierrae (Sierra Wildrye) · Elymus stebbinsii (Parish Wheatgrass) · Elymus stebbinsii stebbinsii (Parish Wheatgrass) · Elymus submuticus (Virginia Wildrye) · Elymus subsecundus (Bearded Wheatgrass) · Elymus svensonii (Svenson's Wild-Rye) · Elymus tangutorum (Wildrye) · Elymus trachycaulus (Slender Wheatgrass) · Elymus trachycaulus subsecundus (Slender Wheatgrass) · Elymus trachycaulus trachycaulus (Slender Wheatgrass) · Elymus trachycaulus subsp. subsecundus (Slender Wheatgrass) · Elymus villosus (Hairy Wild Rye) · Elymus virginicus (Virginia Wild Rye) · Elymus virginicus var. halophilus (Terrell Grass) · Elymus virginicus var. virginicus (Virginia Wild Rye) · Elymus vulpinus (Rydberg's Wildrye) · Elymus wawawaiensis (Snake River Wheatgrass) · Elymus wiegandii (Wiegand's Wild Rye) · Elymus x dorei (Dore's Wildrye) · Elymus x hansenii (Hansen Squirreltail) · Elymus x maltei (Malt Wildrye) · Elymus x mossii (Moss' Wildrye) · Elymus x palmerensis (Palmer's Wildrye) · Elymus x pinaloensis (Pinalo Wildrye) · Elymus x pseudorepens (Quackgrass) · Elymus x saundersii (Saunders' Wheatgrass)

More Info

[ Back to top ]

Further Reading

[ Back to top ]

Notes

[ Back to top ]

Contributors

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. "Elymus". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 1, 386, 387, 400. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/21/2012