Leymus
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| Leymus cinereus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Supertribe: | Triticodae |
| Tribe: | Triticeae |
| Genus: | Leymus Hochst. |
| Type species | |
| Leymus arenarius | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Leymus is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae (Gramineae). It is widespread across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.[1][3][4][5]
- Leymus aemulans - Xinjiang, Central Asia
- Leymus ajanensis - Siberia, Russian Far East, Alaska
- Leymus akmolinensis - Siberia, Kazakhstan, European Russia
- Leymus alaicus - Central Asia
- Leymus altus - Xinjiang
- Leymus ambiguus - mountains of western US
- Leymus angustus - Altai wild rye - China, Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia
- Leymus arenarius - lyme grass - Europe
- Leymus aristiglumus - Qinghai
- Leymus × buriaticus - Siberia
- Leymus cappadocicus - Turkey, Afghanistan
- Leymus chinensis - China, Korea, Mongolia, Amur, Siberia
- Leymus cinereus - basin wild rye - western North America (US and Canada)
- Leymus condensatus - giant wild rye - California, Baja California, Coahuila
- Leymus crassiusculus - Qinghai, Shanxi
- Leymus divaricatus - Kazakhstan
- Leymus duthiei - China, Korea, Japan, Nepal, northern India
- Leymus erianthus - Chile, Argentina
- Leymus × fedtschenkoi - Kyrgyzstan
- Leymus flavescens - Alberta, northwestern US
- Leymus flexilis - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
- Leymus flexus - Qinghai, Gansu, Shanxi
- Leymus innovatus - from Alaska and Northwest Territories to South Dakota and Ontario
- Leymus × jenisseiensis - Siberia
- Leymus karelinii - Xinjiang, Central Asia, European Russia
- Leymus komarovii - China, Mongolia, Korea, Russian Far East
- Leymus kopetdaghensis - Turkmenistan
- Leymus lanatus - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
- Leymus latiglumis - Uzbekistan
- Leymus leptostachyus - Qinghai, Xinjiang
- Leymus mollis - colder parts of Asia and North America
- Leymus multicaulis - European Russia, Central Asia, Xinjiang
- Leymus × multiflorus - California
- Leymus mundus - Tibet, Gansu
- Leymus nikitinii - Turkmenistan
- Leymus oblongolemmatus - Qinghai[6]
- Leymus obvipodus - Qinghai
- Leymus ordensis - Siberia
- Leymus paboanus - Russia, China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan
- Leymus pacificus - California
- Leymus paucispiculus - Qinghai, Gansu
- Leymus pendulus - Qinghai
- Leymus pishanicus - Xinjiang
- Leymus pluriflorus - Qinghai, Gansu
- Leymus pseudoracemosus - Qinghai
- Leymus pubinodis - Xinjiang
- Leymus racemosus - mammoth wild rye - Eurasia from Bulgaria to Mongolia
- Leymus × ramosoides - European Russia
- Leymus ramosus - Eurasia from Crimea to Mongolia
- Leymus ruoqiangensis - Xinjiang, Qinghai
- Leymus salina - western US
- Leymus secalinus - Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea, Central Asia, Himalayas
- Leymus shanxiensis - Shanxi
- Leymus sibiricus - Russia from Altai Krai to Magadan
- Leymus × sphacelatus - Tuva
- Leymus spiniformis - Qinghai, Shanxi
- Leymus tianschanicus - Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia
- Leymus triticoides - creeping wild rye - British Columbia, western US, Baja California, Tamaulipas
- Leymus × tuvinicus - Siberia
- Leymus × vancouverensis - British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California
- Leymus villosissimus - Yakutia, Magadan, Kamchatka, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia
- Leymus yiunensis - Xinjiang
Butterfly food plant
[edit]Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Tropicos, Leymus Hochst.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1848. Flora 31(7): 118, in footnote in German
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 387 Leymus Hochstetter
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
- ^ The International Plant Names Index