Summary
Place of publication:
Revis. gen. pl. 2:794. 1891
Verified:
02/16/2000
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
buffalo grass – St. Augustine grass – English (Jamaica)
pimento grass – French
chiendent de boeuf – Portuguese (Brazil)
grama-de-jardim – grama-inglesa – grama-italiana – Spanish
grama de costa – pasto San Agustín –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Côte D'Ivoire | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Ghana | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Liberia | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Nigeria | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Senegal | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West Tropical Africa | Sierra Leone | | |
1 | Native | Africa | West-Central Tropical Africa | Cameroon | | |
1 | Native | Northern America | | Mexico | | |
1 | Native | Northern America | South-Central U.S.A. | United States | Texas | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Florida | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Georgia | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Louisiana | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | Mississippi | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | North Carolina | |
1 | Native | Northern America | Southeastern U.S.A. | United States | South Carolina | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Antigua and Barbuda | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Bahamas | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Cuba | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Dominica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Guadeloupe | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Hispaniola | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Jamaica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Martinique | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Puerto Rico | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Kitts and Nevis | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | St. Lucia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Belize | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Costa Rica | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Guatemala | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Honduras | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Nicaragua | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Mesoamerica | Panama | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Chile | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Uruguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Bolivia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Ecuador | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Peru | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | |
6 | Other | | | | | |
Native
Africa
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WEST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone
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WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA:
Cameroon
Northern America
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REGION:
Mexico
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SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.:
United States [Texas]
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SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.:
United States [Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina]
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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CARIBBEAN:
Hispaniola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Martinique, Puerto Rico
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MESOAMERICA:
Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Cultivated
()
Naturalized
()
Other
()
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Animal food | potential as forage | | 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 4:208. |
Environmental | erosion control | | Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997 |
Environmental | lawn/turf | | Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997 |
Weed | potential seed contaminant | | CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=35523.
Accessed 6 October 2024.