Agropyron

Agropyron is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.

Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.


 * Species
 * Agropyron badamense - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
 * Agropyron bulbosum - Iran
 * 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
 * Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis

species now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.
 * formerly included