Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (≡) Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S. T. Blake
• Basionym: Panicum texanum Buckley

Common names:

• buffalo grass  (Source: State Noxweed Seed) - English
• Texas millet  (Source: State Noxweed Seed) - English
• Texas signal grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• Texas-panicum  (Source: Grass Tex) - English

Economic Importance:

• Weed:

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Oklahoma (s.-c.)]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina (s.e.), South Carolina]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Coahuila de Zaragoza, Nuevo León]


Naturalized

Northern America

• United States (probably natzd. in other parts)

References:

1. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) Note: four books on weeds worldwide in scope
2. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators Note: = Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S. T. Blake
3. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
4. Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas Note: = Panicum texanum
5. Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:73.
6. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
7. Seed Regulatory and Testing Division, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act (updated annually). Note: = Panicum texanum Buckley
8. 2018. Mid-Atlantic invasive plant species (on-line resource)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=401372. Accessed 1 July 2024.