Bouteloua

Accepted species 57 Documented here 25 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 57 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. 1,635 documented
Bouteloua dactyloides (Nutt.) Columbus 703 documented
Bouteloua gracilis (Kunth) Lag. ex Griffiths 680 documented
Bouteloua rigidiseta (Steud.) Hitchc. 442 documented
Bouteloua hirsuta Lag. 332 documented
Bouteloua eriopoda (Torr.) Torr. 144 documented
Bouteloua aristidoides (Kunth) Griseb. 92 documented
Bouteloua trifida Thurb. ex S.Watson 72 documented
Bouteloua barbata Lag. 71 documented
Bouteloua pectinata Feath. 68 documented
Bouteloua chondrosioides (Kunth) Benth. ex S.Watson 47 documented
Bouteloua repens (Kunth) Scribn. & Merr. 47 documented
Bouteloua uniflora Vasey 32 documented
Bouteloua breviseta Vasey ex J.M.Coult. 24 documented
Bouteloua elata Reeder & C.Reeder 16 documented
Bouteloua polymorpha (E.Fourn.) Columbus 16 documented
Bouteloua megapotamica (Spreng.) Kuntze 12 documented
Bouteloua scorpioides Lag. 9 documented
Bouteloua parryi (E.Fourn.) Griffiths 8 documented
Bouteloua warnockii Gould & Kapadia 8 documented
Bouteloua radicosa (E.Fourn.) Griffiths 7 documented
Bouteloua diversispicula Columbus 6 documented
Bouteloua simplex Lag. 4 documented
Bouteloua erecta (Vasey & Hack.) Columbus 3 documented
Bouteloua reflexa Swallen 3 documented
Bouteloua alamosana Vasey 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua americana (L.) Scribn. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua annua Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua arizonica (M.E.Jones) Cuellar & Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua bracteata (McVaugh) Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua chasei Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua dimorpha Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua distans Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua disticha (Kunth) Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua eludens Griffiths 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua eriostachya (Swallen) Reeder 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua griffithsii Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua herrera-arrietae P.M.Peterson & Romasch. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua johnstonii Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua juncea (Desv. ex P.Beauv.) Hitchc. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua karwinskii (E.Fourn.) Griffiths 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua kayi Warnock 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua media (E.Fourn.) Gould & Kapadia 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua mexicana (Scribn.) Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua multifida (Griffiths) Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua nervata Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua pedicellata Swallen 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua purpurea Gould & Kapadia 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua ramosa Scribn. ex Vasey 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua reederorum Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua scabra (Kunth) Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua stolonifera Scribn. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua swallenii Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua triaena (Trin.) Scribn. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua vaneedenii Pilg. 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua varia (Swallen) Columbus 0 below the evidence gate
Bouteloua williamsii Swallen 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.