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Elymus elymoides
Also called Bottlebrush Squirreltail, Long Bristled Wildrye, Squirreltail Grass, Western Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus elymoides is a species of wild rye known by the common name squirreltail. This grass is native to central and western North America.
The species is native to most of North America west of the Mississippi River and occurs in a number of ecosystems, from the alpine zone to desert sage scrub to valley grassland.
The genus Elymus is a part of the Poaceae, the grass family, which is the most economically important plant family to modern human civilization.
Alaskan wheatgrass · Thinopyrum acutum · California bottlebrush grass · Canada wildrye · Bearded wheatgrass · Campeiostachys dahurica · Blue wildrye · RS wheatgrass · Eastern bottlebrush grass · Thickspike wheatgrass · Early wildrye · Tufted wheatgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Elymus elymoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
