      
Taxon: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
Genus: Sorghum section: Sorghum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 35092
Place of publication: Methodus 207. 1794
Comment: for weedy sorghums see S. bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii
Name verified on: 05-Mar-2008 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 24-Aug-2011
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
Accessions:
43 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
SPECIES RESTRICTED AS A 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:
-
IA(only shattercane, not cultivated strains)*, MD(only shattercane, not cultivated strains)*, OH(only shattercane, not cultivated strains)*°, PA(only shattercane, not cultivated strains)*.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
|
- Link to noxious weed information from
See also subordinate taxa:
- broomcorn (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- chicken-corn (Source: Amer J Bot
65:481.) – English [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- common wild sorghum (Source: Grass SAfr
[as S. bicolor subsp. arundinaceum]) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum]
- durra (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- feterita (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- forage sorghum (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- grain sorghum (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- great millet (Source: BSBI
) – English
- great millet (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- Kaffir-corn (Source: Hortus 3
[but this adjective is best avoided, as it can be an offensive term]) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- milo (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- Rhodesian Sudan grass (Source: Aust Pl Common Names
) – English
- shallu (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- shattercane (Source: Crop Sci
12:176.1972) – English [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- sordan (Source: D. Krizek, p.c. [via email on 15 Nov 2000]) – English [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- sorghum (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- sorghum (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- sorghum-sudangrass (Source: Federal Seed Act
[as S. ×drummondii]) – English [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- Sudan grass (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- sweet sorghum (Source: N. El Bassam 1998) – English [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- gao liang (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- bachanta (Source: Grassland Species
) – Ethiopia [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- gros mil (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- sorgho (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- sorgho du Soudan (Source: Dict Rehm
[as S. ×drummondii]) – French [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- sorgho menu (Source: Dict Rehm
[as S. ×drummondii]) – French [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- gewöhnliche Mohrenhirse (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- nickende Mohrenhirse (Source: Zander ed17
[as S. cernuum]) – German [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- Sudangras (Source: Dict Rehm
[as S. ×drummondii]) – German [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- Zuckerhirse (Source: Zander ed17
[as S. dochna]) – German [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- jowar (Source: Grassland Species
) – India [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- sorgo (Source: Mult Glossary Crops
) – Italian [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- sorgo gentile (Source: Mult Glossary Crops
) – Italian [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- morokoshi (Source: Names Batra
) – Japanese Rōmaji [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- susu (Source: Kulturpflanze
34:131) – Transcribed Korean [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- sorgo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- daza (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- pasto Sudán (Source: Dict Rehm
[as S. ×drummondii]) – Spanish [Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii]
- sorgo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
- durra (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish [Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor]
Native:
- AFRICA
Northern Africa: Egypt
Northeast Tropical Africa: Chad; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Central African Republic; Equatorial Guinea; Gabon; Zaire
West Tropical Africa: Benin; Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Liberia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone
South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Southern Africa: Botswana; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
Naturalized:
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
- NORTHERN AMERICA
North America
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Mesoamerica: Central America
South America
Cultivated: - cultivated throughout tropic, subtropic, & warm-temperate regions
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
- 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).
- Bor, N. L.
1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- El Bassam, N.
1998. Energy plant species.
18–49.
- Englert, J. M. et al.
1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Grubben, G. J. H. & Soetjipto Partohardjono, eds.
1996. Cereals.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
10:130–136.
- Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
- International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
- Lazarides, M.
1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia.
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
- Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants.
Kulturpflanze
34:131.
- Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
- Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
- Turrill, W. B. et al., eds.
1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
[mentions].
- Tzvelev, N. N.
1976. Zlaki SSSR.
- Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg.
2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae).
Taxon
56:941–946.
- Wood, J. R. I.
1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- de Wet, J. M. J.
1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae).
Amer. J. Bot.
65:479.
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inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
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