Botanical name: Leymus secalinus    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Leymus tenuis, Elymus thomsonii, Elymus littoralis

Blue Wild Rye is a clustered perennial grass with creeping rhizomes; stems 30-100 cm high, usually erect. Leaf-blades are flat or slightly inrolled, 9-20 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, hairless or shortly finely velvet-hairy on both sides, rough above, smooth beneath. Flower spikes are 6-20 cm long, dense or the lower spikelets remote. Spikelets are 2-3 at the nodes, greyish-green or glaucous, sometimes purple-tinged; glumes narrowly lanceshaped, 1-nerved, awned, 10-15 mm long (including the awn), fringed with hairs along the margins; lemma lanceshaped or elliptic, 8-12 mm long, pointed, hairy all over the back, produced at the tip into an awn 1-3 mm long. Blue Wild Rye is found in Siberia, Central Asia, southwards to the Himalayas, at altitudes of 2600-5000 m. Flowering: June-August.

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