Elytrigia is a genus of about 20–40 species of grasses, native to temperate regions of the Old World, in Europe, Asia, and northwest Africa. The species are sometimes included in the related genera Agropyron or Elymus, while species in the genera Pascopyrum and Pseudoroegneria are included in Elytrigia by some authors.[1][2][3] The genus name has also been spelled Elytrigium.[4]
Selected species:[1][2][3]
Elytrigia alatavica
Elytrigia atherica
Elytrigia bessarabica
Elytrigia caespitosa
Elytrigia campestris
Elytrigia curvifolia
Elytrigia disticha
Elytrigia elongata
Elytrigia gmelinii
Elytrigia intermedia
Elytrigia juncea
Elytrigia lolioides
Elytrigia pontica
Elytrigia pungens
Elytrigia pycnantha
Elytrigia rechingeri
Elytrigia repens
Elytrigia scirpea
Elytrigia trichophora
Elytrigia varnensis
^ ab"Elytrigia repens". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
^ abFlora of NW Europe: Elytrigia[permanent dead link]
^ abFlora of China: Elytrigia
^George Bentham (1882), "Notes on Gramineae", Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, 19: 14–134 p. 130
several related grasses, including Elytrigia juncea (Elytrigia × laxa (Fr.) Kerguélen), Elytrigia atherica (Elytrigia × drucei Stace), and with the barley...
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are hard to distinguish from other weeds such as Dactylis glomerata and Elytrigia repens. Thus it is hard to discover in an early stage and therefore hard...
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boreali-atlanticus foredune community, the pioneer vegetation on foredunes, with Elytrigia juncea (E. farctus) as a dominant species. Sea holly is a poor ecological...
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Russia. The wingspan is about 7–8 mm. The larvae feed on couch grass (Elytrigia repens) mining the leaves of their host plant. "Elachista (Aphelosetia)...
podperae Agropyron pulcherrimum Agropyron trichophorum Elymus hispidus Elytrigia intermedia Intermediate wheatgrass is the most widely used common name...
support some temporary colonisation by the grass species sand couch (Elytrigia juncea). The ferry between Harlingen and Vlieland passes by Richel, making...
smithii), foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum), and several wheatgrasses (Elytrigia spp.) and wild rye grasses (Elymus spp. and Leymus spp.). The fungus readily...
stabilisation of many dunes by binding sand grains together. The sand couch-grass Elytrigia juncea also performs this function on the seaward edge of the dunes, and...
The island has a dune and salt marsh vegetation, and its plants include Elytrigia juncea subsp. boreoatlantica, Sonchus arvensis var. maritimus, Chenopodium...
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