Poaceae
Tufted wheatgrass
Elymus macrourus
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Elymus
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Common names
By language (6)
- Chinese
- 光花鹅观草, 少花鵝觀草, 少花鹅观草
- English
- Tufted wheatgrass
- Finnish
- Pikkutunturivehniö, Tunturivehniö
- Icelandic
- Bláhveiti
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Fjellkveke
- Swedish
- Fjällelm
Synonyms
- Agropyron boreale (Turcz.) Drobow
- Agropyron boreale subsp. boreale
- Agropyron boreale subsp. scandium (Nevski) Kuvaev
- Agropyron boreale var. boreale
- Agropyron dasystachyum var. sericeum (Hitchc.) B.Boivin
- Agropyron kronokense Kom.
- Agropyron latiglume subsp. eurasiaticum Hultén
- Agropyron latiglume subsp. subalpinum (Neuman) Vestergr.
- Agropyron macrourum (Turcz. ex Steud.) Drobow
- Agropyron nomokonovii Popov
- Agropyron sericeum Hitchc.
- Agropyron turuchanense Reverd.
- Elymus alaskanus subsp. borealis (Turcz.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Elymus alaskanus subsp. islandicus (Melderis) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Elymus alaskanus subsp. kronokensis (Kom.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Elymus alaskanus subsp. scandicus (Nevski) Melderis
- Elymus alaskanus subsp. subalpinus (Neuman) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Elymus besczetnovae Kotukhov
- Elymus borealis (Turcz.) D.F.Cui
- Elymus borealis var. scandicus (Nevski) Tzvelev
- Elymus dasyphyllus (A.P.Khokhr.) A.P.Khokhr.
- Elymus kronokensis (Kom.) Tzvelev
- Elymus kronokensis subsp. borealis (Turcz.) Tzvelev
- Elymus kronokensis subsp. dasyphyllus A.P.Khokhr.
- Elymus kronokensis subsp. scandicus (Nevski) Tzvelev
- Elymus kronokensis subsp. subalpinus (Neuman) Tzvelev
- Elymus kronokensis var. borealis (Turcz.) Tzvelev
- Elymus kronokensis var. dasyphyllus (A.P.Khokhr.) Tzvelev
- Elymus kronokensis var. scandicus (Nevski) Tzvelev
- Elymus leianthus (Keng) S.L.Chen
- Elymus macrourus subsp. neplianus (V.N.Vassil.) Tzvelev
- Elymus macrourus subsp. pilosivaginatus (Jurtzev) Czerep.
- Elymus macrourus subsp. turuchanensis (Reverd.) Tzvelev
- Elymus macrourus var. neplianus (V.N.Vassil.) Tzvelev
- Elymus macrourus var. pilosivaginatus (Jurtzev) Tzvelev
- Elymus neoborealis A.P.Khokhr.
- Elymus neplianus (V.N.Vassil.) Czerep.
- Elymus scandicus (Nevski) Tzvelev
- Elymus scandicus var. borealis (Turcz.) Tzvelev
- Elymus turuchanensis (Reverd.) Czerep.
and 16 more.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.