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Salina Wildrye

Leymus salina

Also called Salina Pass Wild Rye

Salina Wildrye
Photo: Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
SW. & WC. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Leymus salina is a species of grass known as Salina wildrye, Salina Pass wildrye, and saline wildrye. It is native to the western United States and is named for its type locality: Salina Pass, Utah.

Where it grows

This plant grows in a number of habitat types in the western United States. It is sometimes a dominant species in pinyon-juniper woodlands and Gambel oak woodlands. In Colorado it is often codominant with Wyoming big sagebrush, shadscale, and Gardner's saltbush.

Other Leymus plants

Leymus akmolinensis · Colorado wildrye · Altai wildrye · Sand ryegrass · False wheatgrass · Basin wildrye · Giant wildrye · Downy ryegrass · American dunegrass · Manystem wildrye · Mammoth wildrye · Beardless wildrye

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leymus salina 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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