Taxon: Sporobolus wrightii Munro ex Scribn.

Common names:

• big alkali sacaton   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• big sacaton   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English
  
• sacaton   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 1999)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 1999)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Mejia Saules & Davila Aranda 1992)
  

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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 [n.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [w.-c.], Utah [s.w.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Colima, Federal District, Hidalgo, Mexico

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:398. [= S. airoides var. wrightii (Munro) Gould].
• Beetle, A. A. 1983. Las Gramineas de Mexico. 249. [= S. airoides].
• 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.
• 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.
• Peterson, P. M. et al. 2004. Sporobolus (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Cynodonteae: Zoysieae: Sporobolinae) from northeastern México. Sida 21(3):586–588.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sporobolus wrightii.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sporobolus wrightii.

Check other web resources for Sporobolus wrightii Munro ex Scribn.:

• 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.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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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