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:

• barnyard grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• barnyard millet   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• cocksfoot grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• cockshin grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• cockspur   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• cockspur grass   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• cockspur-panic   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• water grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• wild millet   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• denieba   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• echinochloa pied-de-coq   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• panic pied-de-coq   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• pied de coq   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• gewöhnliche Hühnerhirse   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Hühnerhirse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• sanwak   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• pi   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:97.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• arrocillo   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  
• pata de gallo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pie de gallina   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• zacate de agua   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• hönshirs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda
  West Tropical Africa: Guinea; Senegal
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique
  Southern Africa: South Africa; Swaziland
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey
  Middle Asia: Uzbekistan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; Bhutan; India; Nepal; Pakistan; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Norway
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Netherlands; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Ukraine
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  North America
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: U.S. Outlying Islands - Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands; United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands; Micronesia
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Colombia; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• origin obscure, likely tropical Asia

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:126–127.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• American Phytopathological Society. 1992. Compendium of rice diseases. In: American Phytopathological Society, The disease compendium series. 18.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Boulos, L. & M. N. El-Hadidi. 1984. The weeds of Egypt.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Development Consortium. Invasive species compendium (on-line resource).
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:97.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• 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.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Echinochloa crus-galli.

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 web resources 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
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.

Images:

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

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• 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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