Leymus

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.
Synonyms
	Elymus sect. Leymus (Hochst.) Honda; Aneurolepidium Nevski; Eremium Seberg & Linde-Laursen; Macrohystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob.; Malacurus Nevski; Microhystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob.;

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

Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.

References

[j-1] Tropicos, Leymus Hochst.

[z-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

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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.