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Leymus angustus
Also called Narrow Leaved Lymegrass, Altai Wild Rye, Narrowleaf Lyme Grass
Leymus angustus is a species of grass known by the common name Altai wildrye. It is native to Asia and Europe and it is cultivated elsewhere as a pasture grass, especially in Canada.
This rhizomatous perennial grass produces stems up to 1.2 metres tall. The leaves are mostly located around the base of the stems. The stiff, waxy-textured leaf blades are up to 20 cm long. They are light green to blue in color. The inflorescence is a spike up to 25 cm long by 1 wide. Each spikelet is one or two centimetres long and contains 2 or 3 flowers.
Leymus akmolinensis · Colorado wildrye · Sand ryegrass · False wheatgrass · Basin wildrye · Giant wildrye · Downy ryegrass · American dunegrass · Manystem wildrye · Mammoth wildrye · Salina Wildrye · Beardless wildrye
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leymus angustus 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.
