Leymus condensatus

Leymus condensatus, the giant wildrye, is a wild rye grass native to California and northern Mexico.

Leymus condensatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Pooideae
Genus: Leymus
Species:
L. condensatus
Binomial name
Leymus condensatus
Synonyms

Aneurolepidium condensatum
Elymus condensatus

Description

Leymus condensatus grows in bunches or clumps, a bunch grass, stays green all year, and has a distinctive silver blue foliage. It is drought tolerant, growing in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, the California oak woodlands of southern oak woodland and foothill woodland, and Joshua tree woodlands, rarely in wetlands. It often hybridizes with Leymus triticoides, producing the common hybrid grass Leymus x multiflorus.


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