Leymus salina

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: saline wildrye
Symbol: LESA4
Description: Perennial, bunch grass, sometimes weakly rhizomatous. Culms 35-140 cm tall. Leaves exceeded by the spikes; auricles to 1 mm; ligules 0.1-1 mm, truncate; blades 1-5 mm wide, flat to strongly involute, adaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely to densely hirsute, with 5-9 prominently ribbed, subequal veins. Spikes 4-14 cm long, 4-11 mm wide, nodes below midspike with 1-2(3) spikelets, internodes glabrous. Spikelets 9-21 mm, pedicellate. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.