Agropyron

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Agropyron Gaertn.

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets solitary at each node of a bilateral spike, borne flatwise to the flexuous or zigzag rachis, several-fld, eventually disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; internodes of the rachis very short, mostly 0.5–2(–3) mm; glumes strongly and somewhat excentrically keeled, the keel commonly produced into a short awn; lemmas firm, distally keeled and usually short-awned, with 1 or 2 pairs of less prominent lateral veins; anthers ± elongate, (2–)3–5 mm; outcrossing perennial bunchgrasses. One broadly defined (as here) or several closely allied spp., native to Eurasia.

• Common Names

  crested wheatgrass