T14S.R13E Pima County.AZ 050813 - Arizona Native Plant Society

Bouteloua bromoides (see footnote 89 under Bouteloua radicosa and Bouteloua repens)Bouteloua curtipendula (A. Michaux) J. Torrey: Sideoats GramaCOMMON NAMES: Avenilla (Hispanic); Banderilla (“Little Flag”, Spanish: Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora);[Pasto] Banderilla (“Little Flag [Grass]”, Spanish: Chihuahua, Sonora) 140 ; Banderita (Hispanic); Dadpk Waṣai (“Slippery Grass / Smooth Grass”, Uto-Aztecan: Hiá Ceḍ O’odham, Tohono O’odham) 140 ; Fall Grama Grass;Fall Gramma Grass; Grama (a name also applied to other species and the genus Bouteloua, Spanish: Oklahoma); Grama-azul(Portuguese: Brazil); Grama del Cerro (Hispanic); Grama Grass (a name also applied to other species and the genus Bouteloua,Nebraska); Gramilla (“Little Grass”, Spanish: Mexico) 140 ; Hairy Mesquite Grass (a name also applied to other species, NewMexico); Hairy Muskit (a name also applied to other species); Harushö (Uto-Aztecan: Hopi) 140 , Isnáap Ic Is (“Whose Fruit Is OnOne Side” a name also applied to other species, Hokan: Seri); Mesquit Grass (a name also applied to other species); MesquiteGrass (a name also applied to other species [Nebraska] and the genus Bouteloua); Muskit (Nebraska, a name also applied to otherspecies); Navaja Sa’i (“Grass” a word used for any grass, Uto-Aztecan: Mountain Pima) 140 ; Navajita (“Little Knife” aname also applied to other species, Spanish: Baja California, Chihuahua, Sonora); Navajita Banderilla (Spanish: Baja California,Chihuahua, Sonora) 140 ; Owiv (“Grass”, Uto-Aztecan: Ute); Prairie Oats (Kansas) 140 ; Qm-u-se’-a (Havasupai); RacemedAtheropogon; Racemed Boutelous; Side Oat Grama; Side Oats; Side Oats Grama (Nebraska); Side Oats Grama Grass; Side OatsGramma Grass; Side Oats Grammagrass; Side-oat Grama; Sideoat Gramma; Side-oat Gramma; Side-oats; Side-oats Grama (aname also applied to the genus Bouteloua - Nebraska); Side-oats Grama Grass; Side-oats Grama-grass; Side-oats Gramina; SideoatsGramma; Side-oats Gramma-grass; Side-oats Gramma Grass; Side-oats Grass; Sideoat Grama; Sideoat Gramma; SideoatsGrama (English) 140 ; Sideoats Grama Grass; Sideoats Gramma-grass; Sideoats Grass; Ta Tăn Iŋ (Kiowa Tanoan: Tewa) 140 ; TallGrama (a name also applied to other species [Nebraska] and the genus Bouteloua); Tall Grama Grass; Tall Grama Oats (Iowa);Tall Grama-grass; Tall Gramma Grass; Tall Mesquite (a name also applied to other species); Tall Mesaquite Grass; Tap’eñita(Kiowa Tanoan: Tewa) 140 ; Tł’oh (“Grass”, a word used for grasses, Athapascan: Western Apache) 140 ; Tł’oh Łichíí (“Red Grass”, Athapascan: Navajo) 140 ; Tł’oh Nástasí (“Grass That Bends Back Around”, Athapascan: Navajo) 140 ;Tłobindaiłkehntii (“Grass With Seeds Lying on Top of One Another”, Athapascan: Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache) 140 ;Uitsaku Juatarhu (Purépecha); Wahái (“Grass” a word used for grasses, Uto-Aztecan: Northern Paiute) 140 ; Wiry Grama; Zacatede Navaja (“Knife Grass”, Spanish: Sonora) 140 . DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial perennial (usually) tufted graminoid (a bunchgrass(clumpgrass) with decumbent, geniculate, ascending and/or erect culms 3 to 52 inches in height and up to 2 feet in width at thebase; one plant was observed and described as being 12 to 16 inches in height and 16 inches in width at the base, one plant wasobserved and described as being 28 inches in height and 4 inches in width at the base); the foliage is bluish-green or purple-greencuring to reddish-brown or straw; the flowers are bright purple; the anthers are orange, purple, red, yellow or dark yellow;flowering generally takes place between late April and mid-November (additional records: one for early April, one for earlyDecember); the mature fruits are red-brown. HABITAT: Within the range of this species it has been reported from mountains;mountaintops; bouldery, rocky, rocky-gravelly, gravelly, pebbly-sandy, sandy and clayey-loamy mesas; plateaus; cliffs; hanginggardens; sandy bases of cliffs; rocky and sandy canyon rims; along rocky and loamy canyons; stony canyon walls; in sand alongcanyon walls; along rocky and sandy canyon bottoms; rocky gorges; talus ridges; sandy crevices in rocks; rocky-gravelly andsandy bluffs; rocky, gravelly-clayey and clayey buttes; knolls; rocky and sandy ledges; along rocky, rocky-sandy, gravelly-loamyand sandy-silty-loamy ridges; rocky, gravelly-clayey, gravelly-silty-loamy ridgetops; clayey ridge slumps; openings in forestsand woodlands; meadows; rocky and clayey-loamy foothills; rocky, rocky-gravelly and cindery (scoria) hills; sandy hilltops;rocky, shaley, stony and sandy hillsides; sandy bases of escarpments; along bedrock, bouldery, bouldery-rocky-sandy, rocky,rocky-gravelly, rocky-sandy, rocky-sandy-loamy, rocky-loamy, rocky-clayey-silty, shaley, shaley-silty, stony, stony-gravelly,gravelly, gravelly-sandy, gravelly-loamy, gravelly-clayey, sandy, sandy-loamy, sandy-clayey-loamy, sandy-silty, loamy, clayey,clayey-loamy, clayey and silty-loamy slopes; gravelly bajadas; rocky outcrops; amongst boulders, rocks and cobbles; rockbeds;sandy lava flows; sand hills; sand bluffs; sand dunes; sandy-clayey banks; breaks; stony-gravelly benches; benchlands; shaleybarrens; sandy, clayey-loamy and silty-clayey prairies; sandy and sandy-clayey plains; rocky, rocky-gravelly, sandy, sandyclayey,sandy-silty and clayey flats; sandy, clayey, clayey-loamy and silty-clayey uplands; sandy valley floors; sandy roadcuts;along gravelly and sandy roadsides; along and in bedrock, rocky and gravelly arroyos; sandy bottoms of arroyos; along and inrocky, loamy, loamy-clayey and silty draws; bottoms of gullies; along ravines; bedrock bottoms of ravines; seeps; along springs;around streams; along streambeds; in silty-loamy soils along and in creeks; along rocky creekbeds; along rivers; riverbeds; alongand in rocky, rocky-gravelly, gravelly and sandy washes; along and in rocky-clayey-silty, gravelly-sandy, sandy, gravelly-clayey,sandy, clayey and silty-loamy drainages; within drainage ways; ciénegas; marshes; silty-clayey depressions; in low swales withDesert Willow; along (gravelly-sandy, sandy, clayey and silty) banks of draws, creeks and rivers, gullies, streams, rivers andwashes; along (rocky) edges of ravines, springs and washes; margins of rivers and pools; (clayey-loamy) shores of lakes; gravelbars; rocky-sandy benches; rock shelves; gravelly terraces; bottomlands; gravelly, sandy and clayey floodplains; mesquitebosques; along sandy fencelines; clayey catchments; stock tanks; rocky riparian areas, and disturbed areas growing in wet (rarelyrecorded); mucky-clayey (rarely recorded), and wet (rarely recorded), moist (rarely recorded) and dry rimrock; rocky desertpavement; bouldery, bouldery-rocky-sandy, bouldery-cobbly-sandy, rocky, rocky-gravelly, rocky-sandy, shaley, stony, stonygravelly,cobbly, cindery (scoria), cindery-gravelly, gravelly, gravelly-sandy, pebbly-sandy and sandy ground; rocky loam,rocky-sandy loam, rocky-clayey loam, gravelly loam, gravelly-clayey loam, gravelly-silty loam, sandy loam, sandy-clayey loam,sandy-silty loam, clayey loam, silty loam, silty-clayey loam and loam ground; bouldery clay, gravelly clay, gravelly-sandy clay,sandy clay, loamy clay, silty clay and clay ground; rocky silty, rocky-clayey silty, shaley silty, sandy silty and silty ground, andchalky ground, occurring from 300 to 9,800 feet in elevation in the forest, woodland, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetland36