The genus was first described by
Mariano Lagasca in 1805.
David Griffiths produced a 1912
monograph on the genus.
Species Species of
Bouteloua include: •
Bouteloua alamosana Vasey –
Mesoamerica •
Bouteloua americana (L.) Scribn. – American grama – southern Mexico,
Central America,
West Indies, northern
South America •
Bouteloua annua Swallen –
Baja California Sur,
Sonora •
Bouteloua arizonica (M.E.Jones) Cuellar & Columbus •
Bouteloua aristidoides (Kunth) Griseb. – needle grama – United States (
California,
Arizona,
Nevada,
Utah,
New Mexico,
Texas); Mexico, South America,
Aruba •
Bouteloua barbata Lag. – six-weeks grama – United States, Mexico •
Bouteloua bracteata (McVaugh) Columbus –
Michoacán •
Bouteloua breviseta Vasey – United States, Mexico •
Bouteloua chasei Swallen •
Bouteloua chondrosioides (Kunth) Benth. ex S.Watson – sprucetop grama – United States (
AZ TX); Mesoamerica •
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. – sideoats grama – widespread in USA, Canada, Mexico •
Bouteloua dactyloides (
Nutt.)
Columbus – buffalograss – USA, Canada, Mexico •
Bouteloua dimorpha Columbus –
Great Plains in USA, Canada, Mexico,
Honduras,
Cuba,
Trinidad •
Bouteloua distans Swallen – Mexico •
Bouteloua disticha (Kunth) Benth. – from southern Mexico to
Ecuador; also Cuba,
Galápagos •
Bouteloua diversispicula Columbus •
Bouteloua elata Reeder & C.Reeder •
Bouteloua eludens Griffiths – USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (
Chihuahua,
Coahuila,
Sonora) •
Bouteloua erecta (Vasey & Hack.) Columbus •
Bouteloua eriopoda (Torr.) Torr. – United States, Mexico •
Bouteloua eriostachya (Swallen) Reeder •
Bouteloua gracilis (Willd. ex Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths – blue grama –
Great Plains in USA, Canada, Mexico •
Bouteloua griffithsii Columbus •
Bouteloua herrera-arrietae P.M.Peterson & Romasch. •
Bouteloua hirsuta Lag. – USA (Great Plains, Southwest), Mexico, Guatemala •
Bouteloua johnstonii Swallen – Coahuila •
Bouteloua juncea (Desv. ex Beauv.) A.S.Hitchc. – lamilla – Cuba,
Hispaniola,
Puerto Rico •
Bouteloua karwinskyi (E.Fourn.) Griffiths •
Bouteloua kayi Warnock •
Bouteloua media (E.Fourn.) Gould & Kapadia – from central Mexico to
Uruguay •
Bouteloua megapotamica (Spreng.) Kuntze –
Argentina,
Brazil,
Uruguay,
Bolivia •
Bouteloua mexicana (Scribn.) Columbus – Mexico,
Belize,
Guatemala, Honduras •
Bouteloua multifida (Griffiths) Columbus – from Sonora to
Oaxaca •
Bouteloua nervata Swallen –
Hidalgo,
México State •
Bouteloua parryi (E. Fourn.) Griffiths – Parry's Grama, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Northern Mexico •
Bouteloua pectinata (
Bouteloua hirsuta var.
pectinata) – tall grama, eyebrow grass – Texas •
Bouteloua pedicellata Swallen –
Puebla, Hidalgo,
Guanajuato,
Tlaxcala,
Nuevo León,
Veracruz •
Bouteloua polymorpha (E.Fourn.) Columbus – from Durango to Oaxaca •
Bouteloua purpurea Gould & Kapadia – Guanajuato,
D.F.,
San Luis Potosí, México State, Hidalgo,
Querétaro •
Bouteloua radicosa (E. Fourn.) Griffiths – purple grama – USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (Chihuahua, Michoacán, Coahuila,
Morelos, Puebla, Durango,
Zacatecas, Distrito Federal de México, Jalisco, Nuevo León, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Tamaulipas) •
Bouteloua ramosa Scribn. ex Vasey •
Bouteloua reederorum Columbus – Durango, Puebla, Zacatecas, Oaxaca •
Bouteloua reflexa Swallen – Sonora, Sinaloa,
Baja California,
Baja California Sur,
Nayarit •
Bouteloua repens (Kunth) Scribn. & Merr. – slender grama – Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Mesoamerica,
Colombia,
Venezuela,
West Indies •
Bouteloua rigidiseta (Steud.) Hitchc. – Texas grama – New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mexico (
Aguascalientes, Durango) •
Bouteloua scabra (Kunth) Columbus – from Hidalgo to Honduras •
Bouteloua scorpioides Lag. •
Bouteloua simplex Lag. Much of southwestern and central United States, Central America, western South America •
Bouteloua stolonifera Scribn. – San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas •
Bouteloua swallenii Columbus – from El Salvador to Venezuela •
Bouteloua triaena (Trin. ex Spreng.) Scribn. – from Sinaloa to Guatemala •
Bouteloua trifida Thunb. – Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Mexico •
Bouteloua uniflora Vasey – Nealley grama, oneflower grama – Utah, Texas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nuevo León,
Querétaro, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas •
Bouteloua vaneedenii Pilg. – Cuba,
Leeward Islands, Venezuela •
Bouteloua varia (Swallen) Columbus •
Bouteloua warnockii Gould & Kapadia – Warnock's grama – New Mexico, Texas, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas •
Bouteloua williamsii Swallen – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras File:Bouteloua barbata (4191996700).jpg|
Bouteloua barbata (six-weeks grama) File:Bouteloua curtipendula (3797569342).jpg|
Bouteloua curtipendula (sideoats grama) File:Bouteloua eriopoda HC-1950.png|
Bouteloua eriopoda (black grama) File:Bouteloua gracilis2.jpg|
Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama) File:Eutriana multiseta - Species graminum - Volume 3.jpg|
Bouteloua megapotamica File:Bouteloua trifida HC-1950.jpg|
Bouteloua trifida (red grama) == Distribution ==