Taxon: Urochloa texana (Buckley) R. D. Webster

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FL(as Panicum texanum)°, GA(as Panicum texanum)°, NC(as Panicum texanum)°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• buffalo grass   (Source: State Noxweed Seed as Panicum texanum)
  
• Texas millet   (Source: State Noxweed Seed as Panicum texanum)
  
• Texas signal grass   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• Texas-panicum   (Source: Grass Tex as Panicum texanum)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Oklahoma [s.-c.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina [s.e.], South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Nuevo Leon

Other:

• probably naturalized in other parts of United States

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat) [= Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S. T. Blake].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas. (Grass Tex) [= Panicum texanum].
• Morrone, O. & F. O. Zuloaga. 1993. Sinopsis del genero Urochloa (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Paniceae) para Mexico y America central. Darwiniana 32:73.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed) [= Panicum texanum Buckley].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Urochloa texana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Urochloa texana. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Brachiaria texana (Buckley) S. T. Blake
  
• (≡) Panicum texanum Buckley (basionym)
  (previously associated with 7 accessions)

Check other databases for Urochloa texana (Buckley) R. D. Webster:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?401372 (21 November 2009)

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