Native & growing wild in Austria, southern & eastern Europe, Morocco, southwestern, central, & eastern Asia. Naturalized in Germany, Switzerland, northern Europe, Canada, US, & South America. Extensively planted in western US for erosion control.
Distribution / Verbreitung: in
Europein
North AmericaPictures / BilderOther English names (not proposed):
desert wheatgrass
fairway crested wheatgrass
fairway wheatgrassAndere deutsche Namen (nicht vorgeschlagen):
Echte Kammquecke
Gewöhnliche KammqueckeTaxonomic citation:
Agropyron cristatum (Linnaeus) Gaertner, Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperalis Petropolitanae 14: 540. 1770.
Basionym:
Bromus cristatus Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 78. 1753.
FYIrelated
LEO-entries:
aus dem
Chinesisch-Wörterbuch:
Wörterbuch-Eintrag für Agropyron cristatum• 冰草 [冰草] bīngcǎo [植] = die Kammquecke
wiss.: Agropyron cristatum2783