Bouteloua trifida

Species of flowering plant

Bouteloua trifida

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Poaceae
Genus:  | Bouteloua
Species:  |

B. trifida

Binomial name
Bouteloua trifida

Thurb.

Bouteloua trifida is a species of grass known by the common name red grama. It is native to central and northern Mexico and the Southwestern United States, where it grows in desert scrub and other dry areas.

This is a small perennial grass growing up to about 30 centimeters in maximum height. It occasionally grows a small rhizome. The thready leaves are no more than 5 centimeters long. The inflorescence bears widely spaced spikelets which are reddish purple in color. Each spikelet has three awns at the tip.

Typically it flowers between March and September.

## External links

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Media related to Bouteloua trifida at Wikimedia Commons  Data related to Bouteloua trifida at Wikispecies

* Jepson Manual Treatment
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Taxon identifiers

Bouteloua trifida|

* Wikidata: Q4950437
* Wikispecies: Bouteloua trifida
* BOLD: 632509
* Calflora: 1132
* CoL: MRLL
* CNPS: 361
* GBIF: 5289855
* GRIN: 463858
* iNaturalist: 75861
* IPNI: 35652-2
* IRMNG: 10931018
* ITIS: 41508
* NatureServe: 2.142712
* NCBI: 252396
* Open Tree of Life: 536155
* PLANTS: BOTR2
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35652-2
* Tropicos: 25511688
* WFO: wfo-0000854019

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