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Tridens (plant)

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Subfamily
  
Chloridoideae

Tribe
  
Eragrosteae

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Poaceae

Scientific name
  
Tridens

Higher classification
  
Chloridoideae

Order
  
Poales

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Similar
  
Grasses, Tridens flavus, Erioneuron, Dasyochloa, Lycurus

Tridens is a genus of perennial grasses in the Poaceae family native to the Americas.

Species
  1. Tridens albescens (Vasey) Wooton & Standl. - southwest + south-central USA (AZ NM TX LA AR OK KS), Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León)
  2. Tridens ambiguus (Elliott) Schult. – pine barren fluffgrass - southeastern USA (TX LA MS AL GA FL SC NC)
  3. Tridens brasiliensis (Nees ex Steud.) Parodi - Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
  4. Tridens buckleyanus (Vasey ex L.H.Dewey) Nash - Texas
  5. Tridens carolinianus (Steud.) Henrard - southeastern USA (LA MS AL GA FL SC NC)
  6. Tridens congestus (L.H.Dewey) Nash – pink fluffgrass USA (AZ TX)
  7. Tridens eragrostoides (Vasey & Scribn.) Nash – lovegrass tridens - southern USA (TX AZ NM AL FL), Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela
  8. Tridens flaccidus (Döll) Parodi - Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia
  9. Tridens flavus (L.) Hitchc. – purpletop - Ontario, eastern + central USA, Nuevo León
  10. Tridens hackelii (Arechav.) Parodi - Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
  11. Tridens muticus (Torr.) Nash – slim tridens - southwestern + south-central USA (CA NV AZ UT CO NM TX OK KS MO AR LA), Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas)
  12. Tridens nicorae Anton - northern Argentina
  13. Tridens × oklahomensis (Feath.) Feath. - Oklahoma (hybrid T. flavus × T. strictus)
  14. Tridens riograndensis Acedo & Llamas - Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil
  15. Tridens strictus (Nutt.) Nash – longspike tridens - southeastern + south-central USA (from TX to FL to IL + PA)
  16. Tridens texanus (S. Watson) Nash - USA (TX NM), Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí)
Formerly included

References

Tridens (plant) Wikipedia