Taxon: Digitaria californica (Benth.) Henrard

Common names:

• Arizona cottontop   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• cottontop   (Source: Grass US ) – English
  
• punta blanca   (Source: Grass Util Mex ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass Util Mex; Food Feed Crops US; NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma [s.w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [s.e.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Bolivia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay; Uruguay

References:

• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Digitaria californica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Digitaria californica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Digitaria californica.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Panicum californicum Benth. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Trichachne californica (Benth.) Chase
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)

Check other web resources for Digitaria californica (Benth.) Henrard:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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