Leymus

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Genus of grasses

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::summary Genus of grasses ::

Elymus sect. Leymus (Hochst.) Honda
Aneurolepidium Nevski
Eremium Seberg & Linde-Laursen
Macrohystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob.
Malacurus Nevski
Microhystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Leymus_racemosus_(Lam.)_Tzvel._1.JPG" caption="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.

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
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

Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.

References

[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40006314 Tropicos, ''Leymus'' Hochst.]
[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=422547 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43043#page/119/mode/1up Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1848. Flora 31(7): 118, in footnote] in German
[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=118489 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 387 ''Leymus'' Hochstetter]
[http://bonap.net/NAPA/TaxonMaps/Genus/County/Leymus Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps]
[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=77073079-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditSimplePlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_wholeName%3DLeymus%2Boblongolemmatus%26output_format%3Dnormal The International Plant Names Index]

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