Agropyron
# Agropyron

Agropyron is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.

Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.

## Species

* Agropyron badamense - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan
* Agropyron bulbosum - Iran
* Agropyron cimmericum - Ukraine, Crimea
* Agropyron cristatum - Crested wheatgrass - Eurasia + North Africa from Spain + Morocco to Korea + Khabarovsk; naturalized in western + central North America (United States, Canada, northern Mexico)
* Agropyron dasyanthum - Ukraine
* Agropyron desertorum - Desert Wheatgrass - from Crimea + Caucasus to Mongolia + Siberia
* Agropyron deweyi - Turkey
* Agropyron fragile - Siberian wheatgrass - from Caucasus to Mongolia; naturalized in scattered locales in western United States + Canada
* Agropyron michnoi - Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia
* Agropyron mongolicum - Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang
* Agropyron × pilosiglume - European Russia
* Agropyron tanaiticum - Ukraine, European Russia
* Agropyron thomsonii - Western Himalayas
* Agropyron tsukushiense (Honda) Ohwi Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis
* Agropyron tsukushiense var. transiens (Hack.) Ohwi synonym Elymus tsukushiensis

## formerly included

species now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.

