Leymus
Leymus cinereus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Supertribe:	Triticodae
Tribe:	Triticeae
Genus:	Leymus Hochst.
Type species
Leymus arenarius ( L.) Hochst. [1]
Synonyms [2]
Elymus sect. Leymus (Hochst.) Honda [1] Aneurolepidium Nevski Eremium Seberg & Linde-Laursen Macrohystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob. Malacurus Nevski Microhystrix (Tzvelev) Tzvelev & Prob.

Leymus is a genus of plants in the grass family Poaceae (Gramineae). It is widespread across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. ^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}

• Leymus aemulans - Xinjiang, Central Asia
• Leymus ajanensis - Siberia, Russian Far East, Alaska
• Leymus akmolinensis - Siberia, Kazakhstan, European Russia
• Leymus alaicus - Central Asia
• Leymus altus - Xinjiang
• Leymus ambiguus - mountains of western US
• Leymus angustus - Altai wild rye - China, Mongolia, Siberia, Central Asia
• Leymus arenarius - lyme grass - Europe
• Leymus aristiglumus - Qinghai
• Leymus × buriaticus - Siberia
• Leymus cappadocicus - Turkey, Afghanistan
• Leymus chinensis - China, Korea, Mongolia, Amur, Siberia
• Leymus cinereus - basin wild rye - western North America (US and Canada)
• Leymus condensatus - giant wild rye - California, Baja California, Coahuila
• Leymus crassiusculus - Qinghai, Shanxi
• Leymus divaricatus - Kazakhstan
• Leymus duthiei - China, Korea, Japan, Nepal, northern India
• Leymus erianthus - Chile, Argentina
• Leymus × fedtschenkoi - Kyrgyzstan
• Leymus flavescens - Alberta, northwestern US
• Leymus flexilis - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan
• Leymus flexus - Qinghai, Gansu, Shanxi
• Leymus innovatus - from Alaska and Northwest Territories to South Dakota and Ontario
• Leymus × jenisseiensis - Siberia
• Leymus karelinii - Xinjiang, Central Asia, European Russia
• Leymus komarovii - China, Mongolia, Korea, Russian Far East
• Leymus kopetdaghensis - Turkmenistan
• Leymus lanatus - Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan
• Leymus latiglumis - Uzbekistan
• Leymus leptostachyus - Qinghai, Xinjiang
• Leymus mollis - colder parts of Asia and North America
• Leymus multicaulis - European Russia, Central Asia, Xinjiang
• Leymus × multiflorus - California
• Leymus mundus - Tibet, Gansu
• Leymus nikitinii - Turkmenistan
• Leymus oblongolemmatus - Qinghai ^[6]
• Leymus obvipodus - Qinghai
• Leymus ordensis - Siberia
• Leymus paboanus - Russia, China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Afghanistan
• Leymus pacificus - California
• Leymus paucispiculus - Qinghai, Gansu
• Leymus pendulus - Qinghai
• Leymus pishanicus - Xinjiang
• Leymus pluriflorus - Qinghai, Gansu
• Leymus pseudoracemosus - Qinghai
• Leymus pubinodis - Xinjiang
• Leymus racemosus - mammoth wild rye - Eurasia from Bulgaria to Mongolia
• Leymus × ramosoides - European Russia
• Leymus ramosus - Eurasia from Crimea to Mongolia
• Leymus ruoqiangensis - Xinjiang, Qinghai
• Leymus salina - western US
• Leymus secalinus - Siberia, Mongolia, China, Korea, Central Asia, Himalayas
• Leymus shanxiensis - Shanxi
• Leymus sibiricus - Russia from Altai Krai to Magadan
• Leymus × sphacelatus - Tuva
• Leymus spiniformis - Qinghai, Shanxi
• Leymus tianschanicus - Iran, Central Asia, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia
• Leymus triticoides - creeping wild rye - British Columbia, western US, Baja California, Tamaulipas
• Leymus × tuvinicus - Siberia
• Leymus × vancouverensis - British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California
• Leymus villosissimus - Yakutia, Magadan, Kamchatka, Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia
• Leymus yiunensis - Xinjiang

Butterfly food plant

Butterflies whose caterpillars feed on Leymus include the Zabulon skipper.

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