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Texas wildrye

Elymus texensis

Texas wildrye
Photo: Mason Brock (Masebrock), Public domain
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Texas
Climate
temperate

About

Elymus texensis, commonly called Texas wildrye, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family (Poaceae). It is native to United States, where it is endemic to the Edwards Plateau of Texas. Its natural habitat is on calcareous bluffs in Juniperus woodlands and grassy areas.

Elymus texensis is a recently discovered and poorly known species. It was described to science in 2006. It is currently only documented from three collections, although further surveys will likely reveal more localities. It appears to be most morphologically similar to Elymus pringlei, which is found further south in Mexico.

Other Elymus plants

Alaskan wheatgrass · Thinopyrum acutum · California bottlebrush grass · Canada wildrye · Bearded wheatgrass · Campeiostachys dahurica · Squirreltail · Blue wildrye · RS wheatgrass · Eastern bottlebrush grass · Thickspike wheatgrass · Early wildrye

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Elymus texensis 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.

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