Taxon: Pleuraphis rigida Thurb.

Common names:

• big galleta   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide F CalifJep; Intermt F, as Hilaria rigida)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as Hilaria rigida)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Pleuraphis rigida from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [Dona Ana Co.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.], Nevada [s.], Utah [Washington Co.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Sonora

References:

• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. [= Hilaria rigida (Thurb.) Scribn.].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [= Hilaria rigida (Thurb.) Scribn.].
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [= Hilaria rigida (Thurb.) Scribn.].
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16. [= Hilaria rigida (Thurb.) Scribn.].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pleuraphis rigida.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pleuraphis rigida.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pleuraphis rigida.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Hilaria rigida (Thurb.) Benth. ex Scribn.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Pleuraphis rigida Thurb.:

• 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
• 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.

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• 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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