Taxon: Achnatherum nelsonii (Scribn.) Barkworth

See also subordinate taxa:

• Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. dorei (7 accessions)
• Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. nelsonii (no accessions)

Common names:

• Columbia needlegrass   (Source: Grass VarUSA [as Stipa nelsonii]) – English   [Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. dorei]
  
• Nelson's needlegrass   (Source: F Utah ed2 [as S. nelsonii]) – English   [Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. nelsonii]
  
• Nelson's needlegrass   (Source: L New Mex ) – English
  

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)
  Subarctic America: Canada - Yukon Territory [s.]
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah

References:

• Allred, Kelly W. 2008. Flora Neomexicana I: The vascular plants of New Mexico, an annotated checklist to the names of vascular plants with synonymy and bibliography.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Achnatherum nelsonii.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Achnatherum nelsonii.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Achnatherum nelsonii.

Synonyms:

• Stipa columbiana auct. [= Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. dorei]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• Stipa columbiana var. nelsonii (Scribn.) H. St. John [≡ Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. nelsonii]
  
• Stipa nelsonii Scribn. [≡ Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. nelsonii]
  
• Stipa nelsonii subsp. dorei Barkworth & J. Maze [≡ Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. dorei]
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• Stipa nelsonii subsp. nelsonii [= Achnatherum nelsonii subsp. nelsonii]
  

Check other web resources for Achnatherum nelsonii (Scribn.) Barkworth:

• 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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