Leymus

Genus of grasses

Leymus

Leymus cinereus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Poaceae
Subfamily:  | Pooideae
Supertribe:  | Triticodae
Tribe:  | Triticeae
Genus:  | Leymus
Hochst.
Type species
Leymus arenarius

(L.) Hochst.[1]

Synonyms[2]

* Elymus sect. Leymus (Hochst.) Honda[1]
* Aneurolepidium Nevski
* Eremium Seberg & Linde-Laursen
* Macrohystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob.
* Malacurus Nevski
* Microhystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob.

Mammoth wild rye (Leymus racemosus)

Leymus is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae (Gramineae). It is widespread across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.[1][3][4][5]

* Leymus aemulans \- Xinjiang, Central Asia
* Leymus ajanensis \- Siberia, Russian Far East, Alaska
* Leymus akmolinensis \- Siberia, Kazakhstan, European Russia
* Leymus alaicus \- Central Asia
* Leymus altus \- Xinjiang
* Leymus ambiguus \- mountains of western US
* Leymus angustus \- Altai wild rye - China, Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia
* Leymus arenarius \- lyme grass - Europe
* Leymus aristiglumus \- Qinghai
* Leymus × buriaticus \- Siberia
* Leymus cappadocicus \- Turkey, Afghanistan
* Leymus chinensis \- China, Korea, Mongolia, Amur, Siberia
* Leymus cinereus \- basin wild rye - western North America (US and Canada)
* Leymus condensatus \- giant wild rye - California, Baja California, Coahuila
* Leymus crassiusculus \- Qinghai, Shanxi
* Leymus divaricatus \- Kazakhstan
* Leymus duthiei \- China, Korea, Japan, Nepal, northern India
* Leymus erianthus \- Chile, Argentina
* Leymus × fedtschenkoi \- Kyrgyzstan
* Leymus flavescens \- Alberta, northwestern US
* Leymus flexilis \- Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
* Leymus flexus \- Qinghai, Gansu, Shanxi
* Leymus innovatus \- from Alaska and Northwest Territories to South Dakota and Ontario
* Leymus × jenisseiensis \- Siberia
* Leymus karelinii \- Xinjiang, Central Asia, European Russia
* Leymus komarovii \- China, Mongolia, Korea, Russian Far East
* Leymus kopetdaghensis \- Turkmenistan
* Leymus lanatus \- Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
* Leymus latiglumis \- Uzbekistan
* Leymus leptostachyus \- Qinghai, Xinjiang
* Leymus mollis \- colder parts of Asia and North America
* Leymus multicaulis \- European Russia, Central Asia, Xinjiang
* Leymus × multiflorus \- California
* Leymus mundus \- Tibet, Gansu
* Leymus nikitinii \- Turkmenistan
* Leymus oblongolemmatus \- Qinghai[6]
* Leymus obvipodus \- Qinghai
* Leymus ordensis \- Siberia
* Leymus paboanus \- Russia, China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan
* Leymus pacificus \- California
* Leymus paucispiculus \- Qinghai, Gansu
* Leymus pendulus \- Qinghai
* Leymus pishanicus \- Xinjiang
* Leymus pluriflorus \- Qinghai, Gansu
* Leymus pseudoracemosus \- Qinghai
* Leymus pubinodis \- Xinjiang
* Leymus racemosus \- mammoth wild rye - Eurasia from Bulgaria to Mongolia
* Leymus × ramosoides \- European Russia
* Leymus ramosus \- Eurasia from Crimea to Mongolia
* Leymus ruoqiangensis \- Xinjiang, Qinghai
* Leymus salina \- western US
* Leymus secalinus \- Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea, Central Asia, Himalayas
* Leymus shanxiensis \- Shanxi
* Leymus sibiricus \- Russia from Altai Krai to Magadan
* Leymus × sphacelatus \- Tuva
* Leymus spiniformis \- Qinghai, Shanxi
* Leymus tianschanicus \- Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia
* Leymus triticoides \- creeping wild rye - British Columbia, western US, Baja California, Tamaulipas
* Leymus × tuvinicus \- Siberia
* Leymus × vancouverensis \- British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California
* Leymus villosissimus \- Yakutia, Magadan, Kamchatka, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia
* Leymus yiunensis \- Xinjiang

## Butterfly food plant

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Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.

## References

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1. ^ a b c Tropicos, Leymus Hochst.
2. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. ^ Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1848. Flora 31(7): 118, in footnote in German
4. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 387 Leymus Hochstetter
5. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
6. ^ The International Plant Names Index

Taxon identifiers

Leymus|

* Wikidata: Q1542804
* Wikispecies: Leymus
* APNI: 150355
* BOLD: 121028
* CoL: 8VYWN
* EoL: 108261
* EPPO: 1LMYG
* FNA: 118489
* FoAO2: Leymus
* FoC: 118489
* GBIF: 2706325
* GrassBase: gen00343
* GRIN: 6804
* iNaturalist: 57185
* IPNI: 328321-2
* IRMNG: 1383927
* ITIS: 500380
* NBN: NHMSYS0000460319
* NCBI: 52713
* NZOR: a830ac26-c0ea-4147-930b-6cf4b5e88419
* Open Tree of Life: 658433
* PLANTS: LEYMU
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:328321-2
* Tropicos: 40006314
* VASCAN: 1338
* VicFlora: 00292d60-a1f5-4cce-bc88-22c02bc1e0e5
* WFO: wfo-4000021649
* WoRMS: 426062