Bouteloua curtipendula(Michx.) Torr.

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WFO wfo-0000853887 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by saltyhiker
fig. a saltyhiker, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-11-01 / obs. 166866366
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. b Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167051684
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by Robbie Hannawacker
fig. c Robbie Hannawacker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185906693
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by Leticia Jiménez Hernández
fig. d Leticia Jiménez Hernández, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 163033795
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. e Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161774209
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by Katie Kucera
fig. f Katie Kucera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170747050
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by tzeducation
fig. g tzeducation, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160871824
Bouteloua curtipendula, photographed by Steven Bodzin
fig. h Steven Bodzin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159894136

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Flowering n = 216 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 216 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 34 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Andropogon curtipendulus (Michx.) Steud.
  • Andropogon curtipendulus (Michx.) Spreng.
  • Aristida minuta Poit. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Aristida secunda Roem. & Schult.
  • Atheropogon acuminatus E.Fourn.
  • Atheropogon affinis (Hook.f.) E.Fourn.
  • Atheropogon apludoides Willd.
  • Atheropogon curtipendulus (Michx.) E.Fourn.
  • Atheropogon racemosus (Lag.) Roem. & Schult.
  • Boussingaultia acuminata Griffiths
  • Bouteloua acuminata (E.Fourn.) Griffiths
  • Bouteloua curtipendula f. vivipara Beetle
  • Bouteloua curtipendula var. aristosa A.Gray
  • Bouteloua meliciformis Roem. & Schult.
  • Bouteloua melicoides P.Beauv.
  • Bouteloua melicoides Steud.
  • Bouteloua pendula Lag.
  • Bouteloua racemosa Lag.
  • Bouteloua racemosa var. aristosa (A.Gray) S.Watson & J.M.Coult.
  • Chloris curtipendula Michx.
  • Chloris secundus (Pursh) Eaton
  • Cynodon curtipendulus (Michx.) Raspail
  • Cynodon melicoides Raspail
  • Cynosurus secundus Pursh

and 10 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.