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Elymus violaceus
Also called Arctic Wildrye, Broad Glumed Wheatgrass, High Wildrye, Violet Wheatgrass, Sierra Wild Rye
Elymus violaceus, many synonyms including Elymus sierrae, is a species of wild rye.
It is a perennial grass with stems growing 30 to 50 centimeters long and decumbent along the ground at maturity. The inflorescence is a series of single-spikelet nodes a few centimeters long, each spikelet with an outward-curved awn up to 2.5 centimeters long.
Elymus violaceus is very widely distributed, being native from eastern Siberia to the Russian Far East, and to most of North America. It has been introduced to much of Europe and temperate Asia.
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 violaceus 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.
