Plant Details

Accepted name:: Elymus hystrix L. [Poaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Elymus hystrix var. hystrix

Elymus hystrix var. piedmontanus D.B.Poind. & Weakley

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
eastern bottlebrush grass	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 11 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Asperella hystrix (L.) Humb. Bot. Mag. (Römer & Usteri) 3(7): 5 (1790).
Asprella echidnea Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 4: 190 (1819), nom. superfl.
Asprella hystrix (L.) Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 100 (1821).
Elymus pseudohystrix Schult. Mant. 2: 427 (1824), nom. superfl.
Gymnostichum hystrix (L.) Schreb. Beschr. Gräs. 2: 127 (1810).
Gymnostichum patulum (Moench) Lunell Amer. Midl. Naturalist 4: 228 (1915), nom. superfl.
Hordeum hystrix (L.) Schenck Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 109 (1907), nom. illeg.
Hystrix elymoides Mack. & Bush Man. Fl. Jackson County: 39 (1902), nom. superfl.
Hystrix hystrix (L.) Millsp. Fl. W. Virginia: 474 (1892), not validly publ.
Hystrix patula Moench Methodus: 295 (1794).
Zeocriton hystrix (L.) P.Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr.: 114 (1812).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Elymus hystrix L.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Elymus hystrix L. var. hystrix	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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