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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
FAMILY
Poaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-73-002?:
Echinochloa crusgalli FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinochloa microstachya
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Echinochloa crus-galli ssp. crus-galli
COMMON NAME:
Rough Barnyard-grass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_eccrm2_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-73-002?:
Echinochloa crusgalli
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Echinochloa microstachya
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Echinochloa crus-galli ssp. crus-galli
2247
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Habitat: alluvial swamps, river shores and bars, depression ponds, impoundments, interdune swales, low fields, beaver impoundments, other moist to wet disturbed habitats, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Rare
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Inflorescence a panicle
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Grain whitish
Grain
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