Echinochloa

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Echinochloa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Echinochloa (Greek, echinos, a hedgehog, chloa, grass). Gramineae. Annual grasses with narrow inflorescence of several thick spikes. Sometimes grown for grain and forage, but scarcely horticultural subjects. Spike-Iris as in Panicum; glumes hispid-spiny, mucronate, the sterile lemma more or less awned.— Species about 12, in the warm regions of both hemispheres. Regarded by many botanists as a section of Panicum. E. Crusgalli, Beauv., barnyard grass, is a common weed in cult. soil. The spikelets are usually long-awned, the panicle 4-10 in. long, green or purple. Dept. Agric., Div. Agrost. 7:82. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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