Index / Search / Bouteloua trifida
§1 Plant
Bouteloua trifida Thurb.
vernacular red grama — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bouteloua
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 75 counties across 3 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 75 counties across 3 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 65 N ▾
- Atascosa 48013
- Bandera 48019
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Cameron 48061
- Coke 48081
- Comal 48091
- Comanche 48093
- Crockett 48105
- Culberson 48109
- Dawson 48115
- Dimmit 48127
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Frio 48163
- Gillespie 48171
- Hamilton 48193
- Hays 48209
- Hidalgo 48215
- Howard 48227
- Hudspeth 48229
- Irion 48235
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kinney 48271
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Live Oak 48297
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- Maverick 48323
- McMullen 48311
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Mitchell 48335
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Presidio 48377
- Reeves 48389
- Runnels 48399
- Schleicher 48413
- Scurry 48415
- Starr 48427
- Sterling 48431
- Sutton 48435
- Taylor 48441
- Terrell 48443
- Throckmorton 48447
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Ward 48475
- Webb 48479
- Zapata 48505
- Zavala 48507
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOTR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289855 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T11:35:19Z