See other conspecific taxa:

• Bouteloua curtipendula var. caespitosa (0 accessions)
• Bouteloua curtipendula var. curtipendula (0 accessions)

Common names:

• side-oats grama  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• tall grama grass  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• grama-azul  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• navajita banderilla  (Source: Grass Util Mex) - Spanish
• stort moskitgräs  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: forage (grazing fide Intermt F; Grass Util Mex)
• Environmental: lawn/turf

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

• EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Ontario]
• WESTERN CANADA: Canada [Saskatchewan (s.), Manitoba]
• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia (e.)]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin]
• NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming (e.)]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Florida (n.), Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia (n. & w.)]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico, Texas]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California (s.), Nevada (s.), Utah]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave]

Southern America

• CENTRAL AMERICA: Guatemala, Nicaragua
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, Uruguay


Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) URL: www.skud.info
2. Cronquist, A. et al. 1972-. Intermountain flora. Note: = Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) A. Gray
3. Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
4. Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators
5. FNA Editorial Committee. 1993-. Flora of North America.
6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). URL: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Bouteloua+curtipendula&quantity=1 target='_blank'
7. Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas
8. Gould, F. W. 1979. The genus Bouteloua (Poaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 66:374.
9. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
10. Herrera-Arrieta, Y. et al. 2004. Revisión de Bouteloua Lag. (Poaceae) Note: CIIDIR Unidad Durango, CONABIO, & Editorial Filo de Agua
11. Johnson, P. G. 2000. An overview of North American native grasses adapted to meet the demand for low-maintenance turf. Diversity 16:40-41.
12. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
13. McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
14. McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
15. Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16
16. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
17. Wofford, B. E. Database of Tennessee vascular plants (on-line resource). URL: https://herbarium.utk.edu/vascular/vascular-database.php?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Poaceae&GenusID=Bouteloua&SpeciesID=curtipendula target='_blank'
18. Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47

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=7524. Accessed 6 July 2024.