Leymus condensatus

Taxobox
name = "Leymus condensatus"

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regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
genus = "Leymus"
species = "L. condensatus"
binomial = "Leymus condensatus"
binomial_authority = (J.Presl) A.Löve
synonyms = "Aneurolepidium condensatum"
"Elymus condensatus"

"Leymus condensatus" (syn. "Elymus condensatus") is a wild rye grass native to California and northern Mexico. Its common name is giant wildrye. It grows in bunches or clumps, stays green all year, and has a distinctive silver blue foliage. It grows is drought tolerant, growing in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, southern oak woodland, foothill woodland, and Joshua tree woodlands, rarely in wetlands. It often hybridizes with "Leymus triticoides", producing the common hybrid grass "Leymus x multiflorus".

The cultivar 'Canyon Prince' is cultivated as a landscaping grass.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8738,9085,9087 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LECO12 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/info2.asp?name=Leymus_condensatus&type=treatment Grass Manual Treatment]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Leymus+condensatus Photo gallery]