Elymus glaucus

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: blue wildrye
Symbol: ELGL
Description: Perennials, sometimes weakly rhizomatous, often glaucous. Culms 30-210 cm, erect or slightly decumbent; Leaves evenly distributed; sheaths scabrous or smooth, glabrous or, particularly those of the lower leaves, retrorsely puberulent to hirsute, often purplish; auricles usually present, to 2.5 mm, often purplish; ligules to 1 mm, truncate, erose-ciliolate or entire; blades 2-13(17) mm wide, usually lax, adaxial surfaces glabrous, scabrous, or strigose on the veins, sometimes pilose to villous. Spikes 5-21 cm long, (0.2)0.5-2 cm wide, erect to slightly nodding.