Agropyron Gaertn.

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Agropyron Gaertn.

• Description

  Description - Spikelets few to several-flowered, solitary (or rarely in pairs), sessile, placed flatwise at each joint of a continuous rachis, the rachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets ; glumes two, equal, firm, several-nerved, usually shorter than the first lemma, acute or awned, rarely obtuse or notched; lemmas convex on the back, rather firm, 5 to 7-nerved, usually acute or awned from the apex.

• Common Names

  wheatgrass