Taxon: Tridens muticus (Torr.) Nash

See also subordinate taxa:

• Tridens muticus var. elongatus (no accessions)
• Tridens muticus var. muticus (no accessions)

Common names:

• rough tridens   (Source: F NC Tex ) – English   [Tridens muticus var. elongatus]
  
• slim tridens   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• slim tridens   (Source: F NC Tex ) – English   [Tridens muticus var. muticus]
  
• tridente alargado   (Source: Grass Util Mex [as T. elongatus]) – Spanish   [Tridens muticus var. elongatus]
  
• tridente esbelto   (Source: Grass Util Mex ) – Spanish   [Tridens muticus var. muticus]
  

Economic importance:

• 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 - Kansas [e.], Missouri [s.w.], Oklahoma
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [s.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Louisiana [s.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [s.], Nevada [s.], Utah [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37:403.
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Diggs, G. M., Jr. et al. 1999. Shinner's and Mahler's illustrated flora of North Central Texas.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gould, F. W. & R. Moran. 1981. The grasses of Baja California, Mexico.
• Gould, F. W. 1975. The grasses of Texas.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Martin, W. C. & C. R. Hutchins. 1980. A flora of New Mexico.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16.
• Shreve, F. & I. L. Wiggins. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran desert.
• Tateoka, T. 1961. A biosystematic study of Tridens (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 48:572.
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tridens muticus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tridens muticus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tridens muticus.

Synonyms:

• Tricuspis mutica Torr. [≡ Tridens muticus var. muticus]
  
• Tridens elongatus (Buckley) Nash [≡ Tridens muticus var. elongatus]
  

Check other web resources for Tridens muticus (Torr.) Nash:

• 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
• 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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