Status: Exotic
Synonyms:
Elymus elongatus (Host) Runemark
Agropyron elongatum (Host) Beauvois
Elytrigia elongata (Host) Nevski
Thinopyron elongatum (Host) Barkworth & Dewey
Triticum elongatum Host
Elymus ponticus 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 ponticus, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, and Denise Friedrick, Burro Mtns., Mangus Springs, Oct. 28, 2007
Elymus ponticus, spike, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, and Denise Friedrick, Burro Mtns., Mangus Springs, Oct. 28, 2007
Elymus ponticus, spikelet (glumes and florets disarticulated), photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, and Denise Friedrick, Burro Mtns., Mangus Springs, Oct. 28, 2007
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