Taxon: Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. Gray

Common names:

• prairie grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sand dropseed   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sporobole à fleurs cacnées   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Environmental: wildlife habitat   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (mainly when young fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

More:

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)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - Ontario, Quebec [s.w.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta [s.], British Columbia [s.], Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut [s.w.], Indiana, Maine [s.w.], Massachusetts [e.], Michigan, New Hampshire [s.e.], New York [e. & n.], Ohio, Pennsylvania [e.], Vermont [s.]
  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, Washington, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [e.], Arkansas, Kentucky [w.], Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina [e.], Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja California, Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:398.
• Correa, M. N. 1969–. Flora patagonica.
• 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.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16.
• Ott, J. E. et al. 2011. Vegetation dynamics at a Mojave desert restoration site, 1992-2007. Natural Resources and Environ. Issues 16, art. 15. 16 p.
• Peterson, P. M. et al. 2001. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41:205.
• Peterson, P. M. et al. 2004. Sporobolus (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae: Zoysieae: Sporobolinae) from northeastern México. Sida 21(3):570–572.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sporobolus cryptandrus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sporobolus cryptandrus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sporobolus cryptandrus.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Agrostis cryptandra Torr. (basionym)
  
• (=) Sporobolus subinclusus Phil.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Vilfa cryptandra (Torr.) Trin.
  

Check other web resources for Sporobolus cryptandrus (Torr.) A. Gray:

• 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.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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