Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Presented in Association with the
Western New Mexico University Department of Natural Sciences

Elymus elongatus (Host) Runemark
(Tall Wheatgrass)


Family: Poaceae

Status: Exotic

Synonyms:
Agropyron elongatum (Host) Beauvois
Elytrigia elongata (Host) Nevski
Thinopyron elongatum (Host) Barkworth & Dewey
Triticum elongatum Host

Elymus elongatus is a robust tall grass with one spikelet at each node of the inflorescence. The inflorescence is elongate, with blunt glumes. There are no rhizomes and the grass presents as a large tuft. It is an introduced perennial.
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Elymus elongatus, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, and Denise Friedrick, Burro Mtns., Mangus Springs, Oct. 28, 2007



Elymus elongatus, spike, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, and Denise Friedrick, Burro Mtns., Mangus Springs, Oct. 28, 2007



Elymus elongatus, spikelet (glumes and florets disarticulated), photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, and Denise Friedrick, Burro Mtns., Mangus Springs, Oct. 28, 2007


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