Index / Search / Agropyron cristatum ssp. pectinatum

§1 Plant

Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn. ssp. pectinatum (M. Bieb.) Tzvelev

vernacular crested wheatgrass — subspecies · Poaceae


USDA
AGCRP8
GBIF
2705196 syn.
Rank
subspecies
crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum ssp. pectinatum)
Platephotograph · Russell PfauCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 373 counties across 22 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 373 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 373 counties across 22 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 31 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 29 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 44 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 40 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 38 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 16 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 43 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 29 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 21 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/AGCRP8 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/2705196 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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