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Spreading wheatgrass

Elymus scribneri (Vasey) M.E.Jones

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Elymus

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Spreading wheatgrass: The flowering spike shatters (disarticulates) at maturity. Note the one pair of long-awned glumes (one spikelet) at each node.
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (2)
English
Spreading wheatgrass
Hebrew
אלומית סקריבנר

Synonyms

  • Agropyron scribneri Vasey
  • Elymus trachycaulus subsp. scribneri (Vasey) Á.Löve
  • Sitanion marginatum Scribn. & Merr.

Characteristics

Growth habit
Graminoid
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Canada: native, Lower 48 states: 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.