Agropyron

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Automatic taxobox |name = Wheatgrass |image = Agropyron cristatum illustration (01).jpg |image_caption = ''Agropyron cristatum''<ref>illustration circa 1805, Hand-colored copper engraving of ''Agropyron cristatum'', from Icones et descriptiones Graminum austriacorum Vindobonae : A. Schmidt, 1801-1809.</ref> |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Agropyron |authority = Gaertn. |type_species = ''Agropyron cristatum'' |type_species_authority = Gaertn. |synonyms_ref = <ref name=y>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451053 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Costia'' Willk. * ''Cynopoa'' Ehrh. * ''Douglasdeweya'' C.Yen, J.L.Yang & B.R.Baum * ''Kratzmannia'' Opiz * ''Zeia'' Lunell }}

'''''Agropyron''''' is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/ag_pyron.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references |accessdate=2009-08-19 |author=Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. |year=2008 |work=The Grass Genera of the World |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606064238/http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/ag_pyron.htm |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}</ref><ref>Gaertner, Joseph. 1770. Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperalis Petropolitanae 14(1): 539</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034604 Tropicos, ''Agropyron'' Gaertn.]</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=100844 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 1, 386, 387, 437 <big>冰草属</big> bing cao shu ''Agropyron'' Gaertner, Novi Comment. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop. 14: 539. 1770]</ref><ref>[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/floraspecie.php?genere=Agropyron Altervista Flora Italiana genere ''Agropyron''] photos and distribution maps for several species</ref><ref>[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Agropyron Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]</ref>

Species in the genus are commonly referred to as '''wheatgrass.'''<ref>[http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=AGROP2 US Department of Agriculture plants profile, ''Agropyron'' Gaertn., wheatgrass]</ref>

; Species<ref name=y/> * ''Agropyron badamense'' - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan * ''Agropyron bulbosum'' - Iran<ref>{{cite web|title=Agropyron of Iran|url=http://flora-iran.com/family/Poaceae/Agropyron.html|website=Flora of Iran|accessdate=1 April 2016|archive-date=22 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722210157/http://flora-iran.com/family/Poaceae/Agropyron.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''Agropyron cimmericum'' - Ukraine, Crimea * ''Agropyron cristatum'' - Crested wheatgrass - Eurasia + North Africa from Spain + Morocco to Korea + Khabarovsk; naturalized in western + central North America (United States, Canada, northern Mexico) * ''Agropyron dasyanthum'' - Ukraine * ''Agropyron desertorum'' - Desert Wheatgrass - from Crimea + Caucasus to Mongolia + Siberia * ''Agropyron deweyi'' - Turkey * ''Agropyron fragile'' - Siberian wheatgrass - from Caucasus to Mongolia; naturalized in scattered locales in western United States + Canada * ''Agropyron michnoi'' - Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia * ''Agropyron mongolicum'' - Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang * ''Agropyron × pilosiglume'' - European Russia * ''Agropyron tanaiticum'' - Ukraine, European Russia * ''Agropyron thomsonii'' - Western Himalayas * ''Agropyron tsukushiense'' (Honda) ''Ohwi Ohwi'' synonym ''Elymus tsukushiensis''<ref name="Plant-List-Atvt" /><ref name="GRIN-Global-Atvt" /><ref name="NCBI-Tax-Atvt" /><ref name="CIMMYT-MGB-Atvt" /><ref name="GBIF-Atvt" /><ref name="Plants-of-the-World-Atvt" /> * ''Agropyron tsukushiense'' var. ''transiens'' (Hack.) Ohwi synonym ''Elymus tsukushiensis''<ref name="Plant-List-Atvt" /><ref name="GRIN-Global-Atvt" /><ref name="NCBI-Tax-Atvt" /><ref name="CIMMYT-MGB-Atvt" /><ref name="GBIF-Atvt" /><ref name="Plants-of-the-World-Atvt" />

; formerly included<ref name=y/> species now considered better suited in other genera: ''Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia'' etc.

==See also== * Wheatgrass * List of Poaceae genera

==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="Plant-List-Atvt">{{cite web | title=''Agropyron tsukushiense'' var. ''transiens'' (Hack.) Ohwi | website=The Plant List | date=2012-03-23 | url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-388983 | access-date=2020-12-06}}</ref> <ref name="GRIN-Global-Atvt">{{cite web | title=Taxonomy | website=Germplasm Resources Information Network International Rice Research Institute | url=https://gringlobal.irri.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=50033 | access-date=2020-12-06}}</ref> <ref name="NCBI-Tax-Atvt">{{cite web|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=129759|title=Taxonomy browser (Elymus tsukushiensis)|website=National Center for Biotechnology Information}}</ref> <ref name="CIMMYT-MGB-Atvt">{{cite web | title=Elymus tsukushiensis Honda Taxonomy - GRIN-Global Web v 1.10.6.1 | website=International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center | date=2020-12-06 | url=http://mgb.cimmyt.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=15073 | access-date=2020-12-06 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> <ref name="GBIF-Atvt">{{cite web | title=Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi | website=Global Biodiversity Information Facility | url=http://www.gbif.org/species/4932547 | access-date=2020-12-06}}</ref> <ref name="Plants-of-the-World-Atvt">{{cite web | title=''Agropyron tsukushiense'' (Honda) Ohwi - Kew Science | website=Kew Gardens | url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:385317-1 | access-date=2020-12-06}}</ref> }}

Category:Flora of the Palearctic realm Category:Poaceae genera Category:Pooideae