Index / Search / Elymus hystrix var. hystrix

§1 Plant

Elymus hystrix L. var. hystrix

vernacular eastern bottlebrush grass — variety · Poaceae


USDA
ELHYH
GBIF
6430988
Rank
variety
eastern bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix var. hystrix)
Platephotograph · KevinCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Elymus
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 857 counties across 32 states/territories
Legend Native · 857 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 857 counties across 32 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 5 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 16 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 2 N
Illinois view state ↗ 102 N
Indiana view state ↗ 73 N
Iowa view state ↗ 34 N
Kansas view state ↗ 9 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 79 N
Maine view state ↗ 6 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N
Michigan view state ↗ 51 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 N
Missouri view state ↗ 9 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 11 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 N
New York view state ↗ 47 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 34 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 11 N
Ohio view state ↗ 75 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 4 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 8 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 42 N
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N
Virginia view state ↗ 77 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 43 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 60 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ELHYH ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/6430988 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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