Taxon: Heteropogon contortus (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Genus: Heteropogon
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 18953
Place of publication: Syst. veg. 2:836. 1817
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9). Accessions:
18 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- 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:
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CA*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- black spear grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- bunch spear grass (Source: J. Veldkamp, p.c.) – English
- spear grass (Source: Pl Res SEAs
) – English
- tangle grass (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- tanglehead (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- Speergras (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- hierba torcida (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
Native: - throughout tropic & warm-temperate regions
- 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds.
1992. Forages.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
4:137.
- Alderson, J. & W. C. Sharp.
1995. Grass varieties in the United States, U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 170, rev. ed. (Grass VarUSA)
- Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
- Davidse, G. et al., eds.
1994. Flora mesoamericana. (F Mesoamer)
- Englert, J. M. et al.
1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Lazarides, M.
1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
- Malezasdemexico.
Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
- Veldkamp, J. F.
1997. pers. comm. [re. common names].
- Zon, A. P. M. van der.
1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Heteropogon contortus (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.:
- 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
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- 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:
- Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- 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.
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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?18953 (09 February 2010)
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