Index / Search / Elymus lanceolatus ssp. lanceolatus
§1 Plant
Elymus lanceolatus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould ssp. lanceolatus
vernacular thickspike wheatgrass — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Elymus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 123 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 8–25 in/yr
- pH range
- 6.6–8.4
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Mature height
- 2.3 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Gray-Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 153,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 123 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Costilla 08023
- Douglas 08035
- Eagle 08037
- El Paso 08041
- Fremont 08043
- Gilpin 08047
- Grand 08049
- Huerfano 08055
- Jackson 08057
- Jefferson 08059
- Larimer 08069
- Logan 08075
- Moffat 08081
- Montrose 08085
- Park 08093
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Routt 08107
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Teller 08119
- Weld 08123
Idaho view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Ada 16001
- Bannock 16005
- Bear Lake 16007
- Bingham 16011
- Blaine 16013
- Boise 16015
- Bonneville 16019
- Butte 16023
- Caribou 16029
- Cassia 16031
- Clark 16033
- Custer 16037
- Elmore 16039
- Franklin 16041
- Fremont 16043
- Jefferson 16051
- Jerome 16053
- Lemhi 16059
- Lincoln 16063
- Minidoka 16067
- Nez Perce 16069
- Oneida 16071
- Owyhee 16073
- Power 16077
- Teton 16081
- Twin Falls 16083
- Washington 16087
Michigan view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 19 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ELLAL ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/6430957 ↗Record version
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