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Elymus scribneri (Scribner's wildrye; Scribner's wild rye; spreading wheatgrass)

Synonyms: Agropyron scribneri (homotypic); Elymus trachycaulus scribneri (homotypic); Sitanion marginatum

Wikipedia Abstract

Elymus scribneri is a species of wild rye known by the common names spreading wheatgrass and Scribner's wheatgrass. It is native to much of the western United States and parts of central Canada where it grows in several types of habitat including alpine mountain peaks.
View Wikipedia Record: Elymus scribneri

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Grass

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cedar Breaks National Monument III 6111 Utah, United States
Fraser Biosphere Reserve 23050 Colorado, United States  
Rocky Mountain Biosphere Reserve II 239938 Colorado, United States
Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve II 2196863 Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0