page_title: Aegilops
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Aegilops / Species
caption_attribution_description: English: Aegilops tauschii
context_page_description: Aegilops is a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family, Poaceae. They are known generally as goatgrasses. Some species are known as invasive weeds in parts of North America.
context_section_description: Accepted species
  Aegilops bicornis - Egypt, Libya, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Jordan, Israel Kuwait
  Aegilops biuncialis - Mediterranean Basin, Rumenia, Ukrain, Caucasus
  Aegilops caudata - Balkans, Middle East
  Aegilops columnaris - Middle East
  Aegilops comosa - Greece, Turkey
  Aegilops crassa – Persian goatgrass - Middle East to Central Asia
  Aegilops cylindrica – jointed goatgrass - from Czech Republic to Pakistan
  Aegilops geniculata - from Portugal + Canary Islands to Iran
  Aegilops × insulae-cypri  - Cyprus
  Aegilops juvenalis - from Turkey to Kazakhstan
  Aegilops kotschyi – ovate goatgrass - from Tunisia to Uzbekistan
  Aegilops longissima - Middle East, Egypt
  Aegilops lorentii - from Spain + Cape Verde to Iran
  Aegilops mutica - Turkey, Transcaucasus
  Aegilops neglecta – three-awned goatgrass - from Portugal + Canary Islands to Kazakhstan
  Aegilops peregrina - from Morocco to Iran
  Aegilops searsii - Syria, Jordan
  Aegilops sharonensis - Israel
  Aegilops speltoides  - from Greece to Iran
  Aegilops tauschii - from Crimea to Henan
  Aegilops triuncialis – barbed goatgrass - from Portugal + Morocco to Kazakhstan
  Aegilops umbellulata - from Crimea to Iran
  Aegilops uniaristata - Italy, Balkans, Turkey, Caucasus
  Aegilops vavilovii - from Caucasus to Saudi Arabia
  Aegilops ventricosa - from Morocco + Balearic Islands to Caucasus
  Formerly included species
  Species once regarded as members of Aegilops but now considered better suited to other genera: Ctenium, Dactyloctenium, Elymus, Eremochloa, Ophiuros, Parapholis, Rottboellia, and Triticum 
  Aegilops aromatica - Ctenium aromaticum
  Aegilops ciliaris - Eremochloa pectinata
  Aegilops crithodium - Triticum monococcum subsp. aegilopoides
  Aegilops exaltata - Ophiuros exaltatus
  Aegilops fluviatilis - Rottboellia cochinchinensis
  Aegilops hordeiformis - Triticum monococcum subsp. monococcum
  Aegilops hystrix - Elymus elymoides
  Aegilops incurva - Parapholis incurva
  Aegilops muricata - Eremochloa muricata
  Aegilops saccharina - Dactyloctenium aegyptium
caption: Aegilops tauschii
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