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Leymus cinereus
Also called Great Basin Lymegrass, Great Basin Wildrye, Giant Wildrye, Great Basin Wild Rye, Basin Wild Rye
Leymus cinereus is a species of wild rye known by the common names basin wild rye, Great Basin wild rye, and Great Basin lyme grass. It is common in western North America.
Leymus cinereus is a common native grass of western North America, including western Canada and the United States from California to Minnesota. It grows in many types of habitat, including grassland and prairie, forests, scrub, chaparral, and sagebrush.
Native American groups had a variety of uses for the grass. The Okanagan and Colville used the roots medicinally to treat internal bleeding and gonorrhea and as a hair tonic. The Cheyenne burned the grass and mixed the ash with blood to make a black dye. Various groups used it for bedding, floor coverings, arrows, and basketry.
Leymus akmolinensis · Colorado wildrye · Altai wildrye · Sand ryegrass · False wheatgrass · Giant wildrye · Downy ryegrass · American dunegrass · Manystem wildrye · Mammoth wildrye · Salina Wildrye · Beardless wildrye
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leymus cinereus 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.
