Taxon:
Elymus canadensis L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:83. 1753
Verified:
11/07/2007
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
- Baum, B. R. et al. 2012. Are the Great Plains wildrye (Elymus canadensis) and the Siberian wildrye (Elymus sibiricus) conspecific? A study based on the nuclear 5S rDNA sequences. Botany 90:407-421. URL: http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp-ps/journalDetail.jsp?jcode=cjb&lang=eng Note: this study tested "the hypothesis that Elymus canadensis and E. sibiricus are two separate species"; it found that samples of the former were significantly different from all specimens of the latter
- Chase, A. & C. D. Niles, comps. 1962. Index to grass species.
- Chester, E. W. et al. 1993-1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
- Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora.
- Dewey, D. R. 1984. The genomic system of classification as a guide to intergeneric hybridization with the perennial Triticeae. Gene manipulation in plant improvement. Note: Plenum Publishing, New York.New York.
- Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
- Englert, J. 1999. New and upcoming native grass releases from the Eastern US Plant Materials Centers. Proceedings of the Second Eastern Native Grass Symposium, November 17-19, 1999. Baltimore, Maryland 2:132.
- FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America. URL: http://floranorthamerica.org/
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Elymus+canadensis&quantity=1
- Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2
- Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
- Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California
- Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
- Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955-1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
- Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Note: with two varieties
- Löve, Á. 1984. Conspectus of the Triticeae. Feddes Repert. 95:451. URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291522-239Xb/issues
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
- Mason-Gamer, R. J. et al. 2002. Phylogenetic analysis of North American Elymus and the monogenomic Triticeae (Poaceae) using three chloroplast DNA data sets. Genome 45:991-1002. Note: this study included two USDA samples (PI 578675 & PI 531568) of Elymus canadensis
- McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
- McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
- Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16
- Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
- Scoggan, H. J. 1978-1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
- Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:284.
- Wang, R. R.-C. 2011. Chapter 2. Agropyron and Psathyrostachys. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals 77-108. Note: this review mentioned the diversity of genome constitution in Triticeae, all types found in Elymus able to cross with wheat
- Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora.
- Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource). URL: https://herbarium.utk.edu/vascular/vascular-database.php?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Poaceae&GenusID=Elymus&SpeciesID=canadensis
Common names
English
Canada wild rye – Great Plains wild rye – French
élyme du Canada – Portuguese (Brazil)
centeio-silvestre-do-Canadá – Swedish
kanadaelm –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | New Brunswick | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Nova Scotia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Ontario | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Eastern Canada | Canada | Québec | s. |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Illinois | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Iowa | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Kansas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Minnesota | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Missouri | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Nebraska | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | North Dakota | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Oklahoma | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | South Dakota | |
1 | Native | Northern America | North-Central U.S.A. | United States | Wisconsin | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Connecticut | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Indiana | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maine | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Massachusetts | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Michigan | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Hampshire | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New Jersey | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | New York | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Ohio | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Pennsylvania | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Rhode Island | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | Vermont | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northeastern U.S.A. | United States | West Virginia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Chihuahua | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Coahuila de Zaragoza | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northern Mexico | Mexico | Nuevo León | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northwestern U.S.A. | United States | Colorado | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northwestern U.S.A. | United States | Idaho | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northwestern U.S.A. | United States | Montana | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northwestern U.S.A. | United States | Oregon | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northwestern U.S.A. | United States | Washington | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Northwestern U.S.A. | United States | Wyoming | |
1 | Native | Northern America | South-Central U.S.A. | United States | New Mexico | |
1 | Native | Northern America | South-Central U.S.A. | United States | Texas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Arkansas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Delaware | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Kentucky | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Maryland | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | North Carolina | w. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Tennessee | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Virginia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southwestern U.S.A. | United States | Arizona | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southwestern U.S.A. | United States | California | n. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southwestern U.S.A. | United States | Nevada | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southwestern U.S.A. | United States | Utah | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Subarctic America | Canada | Northwest Territories | s.w. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Subarctic America | United States | Alaska | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Alberta | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | British Columbia | s. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Manitoba | s. |
1 | Native | Northern America | Western Canada | Canada | Saskatchewan | s. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere |
6 | Other | | | | | exact native range obscure |
Native
Northern America
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SUBARCTIC AMERICA:
Canada [Northwest Territories (s.w.)], United States [Alaska]
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EASTERN CANADA:
Canada [New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec (s.)]
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WESTERN CANADA:
Canada [Alberta, British Columbia (s.), Manitoba (s.), Saskatchewan (s.)]
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NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
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NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
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NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming]
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SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina (w.), Tennessee, Virginia]
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SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [New Mexico, Texas]
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SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Arizona, California (n.), Nevada, Utah]
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NORTHERN MEXICO:
Mexico [Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Nuevo León]
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere)
Other
(exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | fodder | fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001 | Englert, J. M. et al. 1999-. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators |
Animal food | forage | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Environmental | erosion control | | Englert, J. 1999. New and upcoming native grass releases from the Eastern US Plant Materials Centers. Proceedings of the Second Eastern Native Grass Symposium, November 17-19, 1999. Baltimore, Maryland 2:132. |
Weed | potential seed contaminant | | Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora. |