Wheatgrass

Agropyron is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.

Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.

Species

Agropyron badamense - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan

Agropyron bulbosum - Iran

Agropyron cimmericum - Ukraine, Crimea

Agropyron cristatum - Crested wheatgrass - Eurasia + North Africa from Spain + Morocco to Korea + Khabarovsk; naturalized in western + central North America (United States, Canada, northern Mexico)

Agropyron dasyanthum - Ukraine

Agropyron desertorum - Desert Wheatgrass - from Crimea + Caucasus to Mongolia + Siberia

Agropyron deweyi - Turkey

Agropyron fragile - Siberian wheatgrass - from Caucasus to Mongolia; naturalized in scattered locales in western United States + Canada

Agropyron michnoi - Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia

Agropyron mongolicum - Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang

Agropyron × pilosiglume - European Russia

Agropyron tanaiticum - Ukraine, European Russia

Agropyron thomsonii - Western Himalayas

Agropyron tsukushiense (Honda) Ohwi Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis

Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis

formerly included

species now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.