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§1 Plant

Elymus scribneri (Vasey) M.E. Jones

vernacular spreading wheatgrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
ELSC4
GBIF
5290257
Rank
species
spreading wheatgrass (Elymus scribneri)
Platephotograph · Matt LavinCC BY 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

· 73 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 73 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 73 counties across 10 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 2 N
Colorado view state ↗ 22 N
Idaho view state ↗ 8 N
Montana view state ↗ 2 N
Nevada view state ↗ 4 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N
Oregon view state ↗ 1 N
Utah view state ↗ 16 N
Washington view state ↗ 3 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 9 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ELSC4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5290257 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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