Taxon: Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper

Common names:

• three-flower melic   (Source: F NAmer ) – 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)
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas [s.e.], Minnesota [s.e.], Missouri, Oklahoma, Wisconsin [s.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [e.-c.]
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.w.], Arkansas, Kentucky, Maryland [w.], North Carolina [w.], Tennessee, Virginia [n.w.]
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1983. Las Gramineas de Mexico.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• 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.
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Melica nitens.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Melica nitens.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Melica nitens.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Melica diffusa var. nitens Scribn. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper:

• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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