Index / Search / Bothriochloa ischaemum
§1 Plant
Bothriochloa ischaemum (L.) Keng
vernacular yellow bluestem — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bothriochloa
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 182 counties across 16 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 182 counties across 16 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
California view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Atchison 20005
- Barber 20007
- Clark 20025
- Cloud 20029
- Comanche 20033
- Dickinson 20041
- Ellsworth 20053
- Geary 20061
- Gove 20063
- Jefferson 20087
- Leavenworth 20103
- Marshall 20117
- Mitchell 20123
- Montgomery 20125
- Morton 20129
- Phillips 20147
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Riley 20161
- Seward 20175
- Shawnee 20177
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Wyandotte 20209
Louisiana view state ↗ 32 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Cameron 22023
- Concordia 22029
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Feliciana 22037
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tensas 22107
- Vermilion 22113
- Webster 22119
- Winn 22127
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 79 I ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Angelina 48005
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Brown 48049
- Burleson 48051
- Burnet 48053
- Caldwell 48055
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Chambers 48071
- Colorado 48089
- Coryell 48099
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- DeWitt 48123
- Donley 48129
- Duval 48131
- Edwards 48137
- Freestone 48161
- Frio 48163
- Galveston 48167
- Garza 48169
- Gillespie 48171
- Goliad 48175
- Gonzales 48177
- Gray 48179
- Grayson 48181
- Grimes 48185
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Houston 48225
- Jasper 48241
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jim Wells 48249
- Karnes 48255
- Kaufman 48257
- Kendall 48259
- Kenedy 48261
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kleberg 48273
- La Salle 48283
- Leon 48289
- Llano 48299
- Madison 48313
- McCulloch 48307
- McLennan 48309
- Menard 48327
- Milam 48331
- Mills 48333
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Navarro 48349
- Nueces 48355
- Oldham 48359
- Presidio 48377
- Real 48385
- Robertson 48395
- Rockwall 48397
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Somervell 48425
- Tarrant 48439
- Throckmorton 48447
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Victoria 48469
- Washington 48477
- Webb 48479
- Willacy 48489
- Williamson 48491
- Wood 48499
- Zavala 48507
Utah view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOIS ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2704102 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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