''Leymus salina'' is a species of

grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

known as Salina wildrye, Salina Pass wild rye, and saline wildrye. It is native to the western United StatesAnderson, Michelle D. 2004
''Leymus salinus''.
In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory. and is named for its type locality: Salina Pass, Utah.''Leymus salinus''.
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Subspecies

There are three subspecies, including:''Leymus salinus''.
USDA Plants Profile. *''Leymus salina'' subsp. ''salina'' *''Leymus salina'' subsp. ''mojavensis'' – Mojave wildrye *''Leymus salina'' subsp. ''salmonis'' – salmon wildrye

Description

Salina pass wild rye is a perennial grass forming dense clumps of stems up to 1.4 meters in height. It sometimes has

rhizome In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...

s. The leaves are mostly located around the bases of the stems. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

is a spike with spikelets mostly solitary or sometimes paired. Each spikelet contains up to 6 flowers.

Habitat

This plant grows in a number of habitat types in the western United States. It is sometimes a

dominant species Ecological dominance is the degree to which one or several species have a major influence controlling the other species in their ecological community (because of their large size, population, productivity, or related factors) or make up more of ...

in pinyon-juniper woodlands and

Gambel oak ''Quercus gambelii'', with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountains of western North America. It is also regionally called scrub oak, oak brush, and white oak. ...

woodlands. In

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it is often codominant with

Wyoming big sagebrush ''Artemisia tridentata'', commonly called big sagebrush,MacKay, Pam (2013), ''Mojave Desert Wildflowers'', 2nd ed., , p. 264. Great Basin sagebrush or (locally) simply sagebrush, is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae, which grows in ar ...

shadscale ''Atriplex confertifolia'', the shadscale or spiny saltbush, is a species of evergreen shrub in the family Amaranthaceae, which is native to the western United States and northern Mexico. Description The height of ''Atriplex confertifolia'' vari ...

, and Gardner's saltbush.

References

{{Taxonbar, from1=Q42691428, from2=Q6538097 salina Grasses of the United States Endemic flora of the United States