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Elymus glaucus is a species of grass known as blue wild rye or blue wildrye. This grass is native to North America from Alaska to New York to northern Mexico. It is a common and widespread species of wild rye .
Elymus elymoides is a perennial bunch grass growing to around 0.5 metres (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet) in height. Its erect solid stems have flat or rolled leaf blades. The inflorescence is up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) long and somewhat stiff and erect, with spikelets 1 or 2 cm long not counting the awn, which may be 9 cm (3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long and sticks straight out at maturity, making the ...
Turf rolls Golf course sod Harvesting sod A typical roller mower operating on a sod grass farm. Sod is the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting. Turf consists of a variable thickness of a soil medium that supports a community of turfgrasses. [1] In British and Australian English, sod is more commonly known as turf, and the ...
Leymus condensatus also commonly referred to as [2] Canyon Prince is a type of wild rye that is part of the Poaceae (Grass Family). It grows in bunches or clumps, a bunch grass, stays green all year, and has a distinctive silver blue foliage.
The Pooideae are the largest subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, with about 4,000 species in 15 tribes and roughly 200 genera. They include some major cereals such as wheat, barley, oat, rye and many lawn and pasture grasses. They are often referred to as cool-season grasses, because they are distributed in temperate climates. [1]
Elymus is a genus of perennial plants with approximately 150 species [5] in the grass family, related to rye, wheat, and other widely grown cereal grains. [6] Elymus is a cosmopolitan genus, represented by species across all continents of the world. [7] Common names include couch grass, wildrye and wheatgrass. [8] [9] [10] [11]
Leymus cinereus is a common native grass of western North America, including western Canada and the United States from California to Minnesota. It grows in many types of habitat, including grassland and prairie, forests, scrub, chaparral, and sagebrush. [2] [5] The species can be found in moist, semi-alkaline flats. [4]
The stiff, slender green to blue-green leaves stand away from the stems at an obvious angle. The inflorescence is a narrow spike of flowers up to 20 centimeters long. This is a good rangeland grass for grazing , and it is used to stabilize waterways because of its soil-retaining rhizome network.