Nassella leucotricha(Trin. & Rupr.) R.W.Pohl

Texas wintergrass

WFO wfo-0000881223 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Annika Lindqvist
fig. a Annika Lindqvist, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-08 / obs. 198158055
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Casey Cowan
fig. b Casey Cowan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193090041
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Patricia Pennington
fig. c Patricia Pennington, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193871183
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Ian
fig. d Ian, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190200769
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by jim isleib
fig. e jim isleib, CC0 1.0 / obs. 137410609
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Luke Padon
fig. f Luke Padon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131183988
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Jo Roberts
fig. g Jo Roberts, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130108504
Nassella leucotricha, photographed by Chris Hughes
fig. h Chris Hughes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127282221

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Nassella leucotricha is native: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas ArkansasLouisianaMexico CentralMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestOklahomaSouth CarolinaTexas
Native distribution of Nassella leucotricha, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Arkansas ARK NORTHERN AMERICA
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Oklahoma OKL
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Stipa ciliata Scheele
  • Stipa leucotricha Trin. & Rupr.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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