Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Elymus canadensis L. is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Clinelymus canadensis (L.) Nevski, Elymus brachystachys Scribn. & Ball, Elymus canadensis f. calvescens (Fernald) Bowden, Elymus canadensis f. glaucifolius (Muhl. ex Willd.) Fernald, Elymus canadensis subsp. wiegandii (Fernald) Á. Löve, Elymus canadensis var. brachystachys (Scribn. & Ball) Farw., Elymus canadensis var. glaucifolius (Muhl. ex Willd.) Torr., Elymus canadensis var. hirsutus (Farw.) Dorn, Elymus canadensis var. pendulus Eaton & J. Wright, Elymus canadensis var. philadelphicus (L.) Farw., Elymus canadensis var. robustus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Mackenzie & Bush, Elymus canadensis var. wiegandii (Fernald) Bowden, Elymus crescendus L.C. Wheeler, Elymus diversiglumis Scribn. & C.R. Ball, Elymus glaucifolius Muhlenb. ex Willd., Elymus occidentalis Scribn., Elymus philadelphicus L., Elymus philadelphicus var. hirsutus Farw., Elymus philadelphicus var. pendulus (Eaton & J. Wright) Farw., Elymus robustus Scribn. & J.G. Sm., Elymus robustus var. vestitus Wiegand, Elymus wiegandii Fernald, Elymus wiegandii f. calvescens Fernald, Hordeum canadense (L.) Asch. & Graebn., Hordeum patulum Moench, Roegneria canadensis (L.) Hyl., Sitanion brodiei Piper, Terrellia canadensis (L.) Lunell, Terrellia canadensis var. glaucifolia (Muhl. ex Willd.) Lunell ex Hitchc., Terrellia diversiglumis (Scribn. & C.R. Ball) Lunell) (David Arthur Brodie, b. 1868) Northern America. Perennial bunchgrass, loosely tufted, tall, greenish, coarse, robust, erect, shortly rhizomatous, clumpforming, roots fi brous, culms hollow, stems tough and woody at maturity, auricles present, ligules finely hairy, smooth sheaths open to the base, leaves scabrous bluish-green to green, leaf blade flat and pointed, terminal spikes arching and bristly, two spikelets to a node, greenish flowers, narrow glumes slightly roughened and stiff, lemmas lanceolate and rough, awns curved and sharp, ornamental, good ground cover for dry sunny slopes, can be used for binding sand dunes, useful for erosion control, self-seeding tendencies, foliage and spikes turn tan in fall, when young is palatable to all classes of livestock, drought tolerant, naturalized in prairie, usually found dry habitats, in a disturbed part of a sand prairie, in open woods, gravelly banks of rivers, fields, stream banks and waste areas, disturbed roadsides, in moist to sandy meadows, chaparral, desert grasslands, in wetlands or non-wetlands, alluvial woods, sandy beaches, dry sandy gravelly or rocky soil, hybridizes with slender wheatgrass (Elymus trachycaulus (Link) Gould ex Shinners), Texas wildrye (Elymus interruptus Buckl.) and Virginia wildrye (Elymus virginicus L..

References regarding Elymus canadensis L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Centuria I. Plantarum … (1755)
· Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici … (1794)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Botanici Berolinensis, … (1809)
· A Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States (1824)
· A Manual of Botany (1840)
· Bulletin, Division of Agrostology United States Department of Agriculture (1897)
· Bulletin, Division of Agrostology United States Department of Agriculture (1898)
· Erythea (1899)
· Bulletin, Division of Agrostology United States Department of Agriculture (1901)
· Synopsis der mitteleuropäischen Flora (1902)
· American Midland Naturalist (1915)
· Rhodora (1918)
· Report of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters (1920)
· American Midland Naturalist (1927)
· Rhodora (1933)
· Nordisk Kärlväxtflora (1953)
· Canadian Journal of Botany (1964)
· Taxon (1980)
· Vascular Plants of Wyoming (1988)
· Genome (1990)
· Cytologia (1991)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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Full-text: Canadian wild rye, Canada wild-rye, Nodding wild rye, Zacate silvestre del canada.

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