Leymus



Leymus is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae (Gramineae). It is widespread across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.


 * Leymus aemulans - Xinjiang, Central Asia
 * Leymus ajanensis - Siberia, Russian Far East, Alaska
 * Leymus akmolinensis - Siberia, Kazakhstan, European Russia
 * Leymus alaicus - Central Asia
 * Leymus altus - Xinjiang
 * Leymus ambiguus - mountains of western US
 * Leymus angustus - Altai wild rye - China, Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia
 * Leymus arenarius - lyme grass - Europe
 * Leymus aristiglumus - Qinghai
 * Leymus × buriaticus - Siberia
 * Leymus cappadocicus - Turkey, Afghanistan
 * Leymus chinensis - China, Korea, Mongolia, Amur, Siberia
 * Leymus cinereus - basin wild rye - western North America (US and Canada)
 * Leymus condensatus - giant wild rye - California, Baja California, Coahuila
 * Leymus crassiusculus - Qinghai, Shanxi
 * Leymus divaricatus - Kazakhstan
 * Leymus duthiei - China, Korea, Japan, Nepal, northern India
 * Leymus erianthus - Chile, Argentina
 * Leymus × fedtschenkoi - Kyrgyzstan
 * Leymus flavescens - Alberta, northwestern US
 * Leymus flexilis - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
 * Leymus flexus - Qinghai, Gansu, Shanxi
 * Leymus innovatus - from Alaska and Northwest Territories to South Dakota and Ontario
 * Leymus × jenisseiensis - Siberia
 * Leymus karelinii - Xinjiang, Central Asia, European Russia
 * Leymus komarovii - China, Mongolia, Korea, Russian Far East
 * Leymus kopetdaghensis - Turkmenistan
 * Leymus lanatus - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
 * Leymus latiglumis - Uzbekistan
 * Leymus leptostachyus - Qinghai, Xinjiang
 * Leymus mollis - colder parts of Asia and North America
 * Leymus multicaulis - European Russia, Central Asia, Xinjiang
 * Leymus × multiflorus - California
 * Leymus mundus - Tibet, Gansu
 * Leymus nikitinii - Turkmenistan
 * Leymus oblongolemmatus - Qinghai
 * Leymus obvipodus - Qinghai
 * Leymus ordensis - Siberia
 * Leymus paboanus - Russia, China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan
 * Leymus pacificus - California
 * Leymus paucispiculus - Qinghai, Gansu
 * Leymus pendulus - Qinghai
 * Leymus pishanicus - Xinjiang
 * Leymus pluriflorus - Qinghai, Gansu
 * Leymus pseudoracemosus - Qinghai
 * Leymus pubinodis - Xinjiang
 * Leymus racemosus - mammoth wild rye - Eurasia from Bulgaria to Mongolia
 * Leymus × ramosoides - European Russia
 * Leymus ramosus - Eurasia from Crimea to Mongolia
 * Leymus ruoqiangensis - Xinjiang, Qinghai
 * Leymus salina - western US
 * Leymus secalinus - Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea, Central Asia, Himalayas
 * Leymus shanxiensis - Shanxi
 * Leymus sibiricus - Russia from Altai Krai to Magadan
 * Leymus × sphacelatus - Tuva
 * Leymus spiniformis - Qinghai, Shanxi
 * Leymus tianschanicus - Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia
 * Leymus triticoides - creeping wild rye - British Columbia, western US, Baja California, Tamaulipas
 * Leymus × tuvinicus - Siberia
 * Leymus × vancouverensis - British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California
 * Leymus villosissimus - Yakutia, Magadan, Kamchatka, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia
 * Leymus yiunensis - Xinjiang

Butterfly food plant
Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.