Agropyron is a genus of Eurasian plants in the grass family), native to Europe and Asia but widely naturalized in North America.Species in the genus are commonly referred to as wheatgrass.Species Agropyron badamense - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan Agropyron bulbosum - Iran Agropyron cimmericum - Ukraine, Crimea Agropyron cristatum - Crested wheatgrass - Eurasia + North Africa from Spain + Morocco to Korea + Khabarovsk; naturalized in western + central North America (USA, Canada, northern Mexico) Agropyron dasyanthum - Ukraine Agropyron desertorum - Desert Wheatgrass - from Crimea + Caucasus to Mongolia + Siberia Agropyron deweyi - Turkish Kurdistan Agropyron fragile - Siberian wheatgrass - from Caucasus to Mongolia; naturalized in scattered locales in western USA + Canada Agropyron michnoi - Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia Agropyron mongolicum - Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Xinjiang Agropyron × pilosiglume - European Russia Agropyron tanaiticum - Ukraine, European Russia Agropyron thomsonii - Western Himalayasformerly includedspecies now considered better suited in other genera: Crithopsis Elymus Kengyilia Leymus Thinopyrum Vulpia etc.