Taxon: Bouteloua dactyloides (Nutt.) Columbus

Common names:

• Büffelgras   (Source: Dict Rehm as Buchloe dactyloides)
  
• buffalo grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• capim-erva-de-búfalo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 as Buchloe dactyloides)
  
• herbe aux bisons   (Source: Dict Rehm as Buchloe dactyloides)
  
• hierba búfalo   (Source: UPOV as Buchloe dactyloides)
  
• zacate búfalo   (Source: Dict Rehm as Buchloe dactyloides)
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; lawn/turf   (fide Grass VarUSA, as Buchloe dactyloides; Diversity 16:42-43. 2000, as Buchloe dactyloides)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Grass VarUSA, as Buchloe dactyloides)
  

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
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa [w.], Kansas, Minnesota [s.w.], Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Montana, Wyoming
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Arkansas, Louisiana [w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, Nevada [w.], Utah [Daggett Co.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas
  Central Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Federal District, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Queretaro

Other:

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Columbus, J. T. 1999. An expanded circumscription of Bouteloua (Gramineae: Chloridoideae): new combinations and names. Aliso 18:63.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer) [= Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= Buchloe dactyloides].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bouteloua dactyloides.

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

Synonyms:

• (≡) Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.
  (previously associated with 24 accessions)
• (≡) Bulbilis dactyloides (Nutt.) Raf. ex Kuntze
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Sesleria dactyloides Nutt. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Bouteloua dactyloides (Nutt.) Columbus:

• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: 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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