Taxon: Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AR*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• arrocillo   (Source: Grass Cuba II )
  
• barnyard grass   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• cockspur   (Source: BSBI )
  
• cockspur grass   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• echinochloa pied-de-coq   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• gewöhnliche Hühnerhirse   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• Hühnerhirse   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pata de gallo   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pie de gallina   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• pied de coq   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• sanwak   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• zacate de agua   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Diseas Comp)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• throughout tropic & warm-temperate regions

References:

• American Phytopathological Society. 1992. Compendium of rice diseases. In: American Phytopathological Society, The disease compendium series. (Diseas Comp) 18.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables (Weed TabCIBA)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. Cavanillesia Altera
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gould, F. W. et al. 1972. A revision of Echinochloa in the United States. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 87:53.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Mannetje, L. 't & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 4:126–127.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:217.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Echinochloa crus-galli.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Echinochloa crus-galli. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Echinochloa crus-galli var. edulis Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 35 accessions)
• (=) Echinochloa crus-galli var. mitis (Pursh) Peterm.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. spiralis (Vasinger) Tzvelev
  
• (=) Echinochloa spiralis Vasinger
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Panicum crus-galli L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)
• (=) Panicum crus-galli var. mite Pursh
  

Check other databases for Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14823 (22 November 2009)

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