| Leymus | |
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| 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 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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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
Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.
References
- 1 2 3 Tropicos, Leymus Hochst.
 - ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
 - ↑ Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1848. Flora 31(7): 118, in footnote in German
 - ↑ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 387 Leymus Hochstetter
 - ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
 - ↑ The International Plant Names Index
 
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