Details for: PI 632556, Nassella viridula (Trin.) Barkworth, Cucharas


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Nassella viridula (Trin.) Barkworth
Top Name:
Cucharas
Origin:
Collected – United States
Received by NPGS:
Sep 1998
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Availability
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed200 countPI 632556 99i SD
Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.
  
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Nassella viridula (Trin.) Barkworth
Top Name:
Cucharas
Origin:
Collected – United States
Received by NPGS:
Sep 1998
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected

Colorado, United States
Locality: 4.5 miles northeast of town of Walsenburg on Highway 10 in Huerfano County.
Coordinates: 37.6667, -104.7000 (Map it)
Elevation: 1880m.
Associated species: associated species: smooth bromegrass, western wheatgrass, kochia, fourwing saltbush, gramagrass, Lepidium, sweet clover.

Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Cucharas
Type: Developer identifier

T-872
Type: Collector identifier
Group: USDA-ARS-FRRL
USDA-ARS Forage Range Research Laboratory Logan Utah
Jones, Thomas A. USDA, ARS, FRRL

W6 20882
Type: Site identifier
Group: W6
Western Regional Plant Introduction (W6) accession numbers
USDA-ARS, WRPIS

Narrative
T-872 possessed high germination without prechill compared to 30 accessions from Alberta, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Colorado, and New Mexico, surpassing the two commercially available cultivars. Seed through generation G-5 will be eligible for certification.
Nassella viridula (Trin.) Barkworth
Genus:
Nassella
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Pooideae
Tribe:
Stipeae
Nomen number:

402095
Place of publication:

Taxon 39:612. 1990
Verified:
04/15/2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Stipa viridula Trin.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Stipa viridula Trin. var. viridula

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishfeather bunchgrass  1Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp. 1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. CRC Press. Note: Revised version of AH 170
Englishgreen needlegrass  1Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
Portuguese (Brazil)flechilha as Stipa viridula2Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
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Pedigree
Date released:
2003
Description:
Cucharas was increased from T-872, an original collection near Walsenburg, Colorado. No selection was practiced on this accession.
Intellectual Property Rights
Crop Science Registration. GP-86, OTHER GRASSES. Issued: 01 May 2004.
  • Jones, T. A., D. C. Nielson, & S. A. Young. 2004. CUCHARAS GREEN NEEDLEGRASS. Crop Sci. (Madison) 44(3):1031.

Observations

Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.458 GRASS.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 632556 99i SD