Tridens (grass)
Encyclopedia
Tridens is a genus of perennial grass
es in the Poaceae
family native to the Americas
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Grass
Grasses, or more technically graminoids, are monocotyledonous, usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the "true grasses", of the Poaceae family, as well as the sedges and the rushes . The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns ...
es in the Poaceae
Poaceae
The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
family native to the Americas
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
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Selected species
- Tridens albescens (Vasey) Wooton & Standl. – white tridens
- Tridens ambiguus (Elliott) Schult. – pine barren fluffgrass
- Tridens brasiliensis (Nees ex Steud.) Parodi
- Tridens buckleyanus (Vasey ex L.H.Dewey) Nash – Buckley's fluffgrass
- Tridens carolinianus (Steud.) Henrard – Carolina fluffgrass
- Tridens congestus (L.H.Dewey) Nash – pink fluffgrass
- Tridens eragrostoides (Vasey & Scribn.) Nash – lovegrass tridens
- Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. – purpletop
- Tridens hackelii (Arechav.) Parodi
- Tridens muticusTridens muticusTridens muticus is a species of grass known by the common name slim tridens. It is native to Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States, where it grows several types of habitat, including plateau and desert, woodlands, sagebrush, plains, and other areas with dry sandy and clay...
(Torr.) Nash – slim tridens - Tridens riograndensis Acedo & Llamas
- Tridens strictus (Nutt.) Nash – longspike tridens
- Tridens texanus – Texas tridens
Formerly placed here
- Erioneuron pilosum (Buckley) Nash (as T. pilosus (Buckley) Hitchc.)