Taxon: Bouteloua dactyloides (Nutt.) Columbus

Common names:

• buffalo grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• herbe aux bisons   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Buchloe dactyloides]) – French
  
• Büffelgras   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Buchloe dactyloides]) – German
  
• capim-erva-de-búfalo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005 [as Buchloe dactyloides]) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• hierba búfalo   (Source: UPOV [as Buchloe dactyloides]) – Spanish
  
• zacate búfalo   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Buchloe dactyloides]) – Spanish
  
• bisongräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

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

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  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
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Federal District, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico, Queretaro

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

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. [= Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.].
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bouteloua dactyloides.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Buchloe dactyloides (Nutt.) Engelm.
  (previously associated with 28 accessions)
• (≡) Bulbilis dactyloides (Nutt.) Raf. ex Kuntze
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Sesleria dactyloides Nutt. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Bouteloua dactyloides (Nutt.) Columbus:

• 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
• Spikelets and/or florets: 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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