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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Agropyron trachycaulum
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   POACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Agropyron trachycaulum
 AUTHORITY:  (Link) Malte
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    BEARDED WHEAT GRASS
    SLENDER WHEAT GRASS
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: AGTR
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     PRAIRIE
       TYPICAL PRAIRIE
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
       SAND PRAIRIE
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
       GRAVEL PRAIRIE
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
       DOLOMITE PRAIRIE
         DRY
         DRY-MESIC
         MESIC
     SAVANNA
       BARREN
     CULTURAL
       AGRICULTURAL FIELD
       SUCCESSIONAL FIELD
       DEVELOPED LAND
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   BOONE           COOK            JO DAVIESS      LAKE            WILL
   WINNEBAGO
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear
    INFLORESCENCE:   Raceme  Spike
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Grain
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Rare
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     REPRODUCTION:   Sexual   Vegetative
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed on waste grounds; railroad tracks, degraded, often
     calcareous prairie; occasional in sandy soil.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS:
          GRAVEL         No data entered    SAND           No data entered
          SANDY LOAM     No data entered    LOAM           No data entered
          CLAY LOAM      No data entered    CLAY           No data entered
          DENSE CLAY     No data entered    ORGANIC SOIL   No data entered
          NEUTRAL pH     No data entered    ACIDIC SOIL    No data entered
          EXTREMELY ACID No data entered    SALINE SOIL    Good
          SODIC SOIL     No data entered    SODIC-SALINE   No data entered
          ROCKY OUTCROPS No data entered    GENTLE SLOPES  No data entered
          MODERATE SLOPE No data entered    STEEP SLOPES   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:
     MYCORRHIZAE:   endomycorrhizal
 
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:
     ALLERGENIC:  Yes
 
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:
     FOOD VALUE:  No data entered
     COVER VALUE:  No data entered
 
 LIVESTOCK PALATABILITY DATA:
     CATTLE FORAGE: No data    SHEEP FORAGE:  No data    HORSE FORAGE:  No data
     GOAT FORAGE:   No data    ENERGY VALUE:  High       PROTEIN VALUE: Low
     POISONOUS (LIVESTOCK):   No
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:
     WEEDINESS:   Non-weedy
 
 
 PROPAGATION COMMENTS:
         In northwest USA, it has been carried by commercial seedsmen.
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Steyermark, J. A.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  Iowa State University Press, Ames.
     1725 pp.
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Agricultural Experiment Station.  1981.  Weeds of the North Central States.
     Bulletin 772.  College of Agriculture, University of Illinois at Urbana-
     Champaign, Urbana.  303 pp.
 
 OTHER REFERENCES:
     Hitchcock, A.S. 1950. A Manual of the Grasses of the United States.
          United States Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C.
          1051 pp.
     Pitelka, L. F., and D. L. Kellogg.  1979.  Salt tolerance in roadside
          populations of two herbaceous perennials.  Torrey Botanical Club
          Bulletin 106: 131-134.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Agropyron trachycaulum
 
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