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Taxon: Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.

Genus: Sorghum section: Sorghum
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Panicoideae tribe: Andropogoneae.
Nomen number: 35119
Place of publication: Syn. pl. 1:101. 1805
Comment: Johnsongrass is a product of introgression with S. bicolor
Name verified on: 02-Jul-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Apr-2008
Species priority site is: Southern Regional PI Station (S9).
Accessions: 31 in National Plant Germplasm System.
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  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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:
AL°, AR*°, CA(Johnson grass)*°, CO*°, DE(Johnson grass)*°, FL°, GA°, HI°, ID*°, IL*°, IN*°, KS*°, KY°, LA°, MD*, MD°, MI*°, MO°, MS°, NC°, NE°, NJ(Johnsongrass)°, NM°, NV(Johnsongrass)*°, OH*°, OK*°, OR*°, PA*°, PR*, SC°, SD*, TN°, TX°, UT*°, VA°, WA(Johnsongrass)*°, WV*°.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System
Link to species profile at National Invasive Species Information Center

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Egypt; Libya
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [s.]; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized in warm-temperate regions, including North America

      Other:
  • exact native range obscure

References:

  • Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
  • Burkart, A. E., ed. 1969–. Flora ilustrada de Entre Rios. (F EntreR)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. (L Noms French ed6)
  • Dillon, S. L. et al. 2004. Sorghum laxiflorum and S. macrospermum, the Australian native species most closely related to the cultivated S. bicolor based on ITS1 and ndhF sequence analysis of 25 Sorghum species. Pl. Syst. Evol. 149:233–246. [this study shows that this taxon clusters within a well supported clade with other members of section Eusorghum].
  • Dillon, S. L. et al. 2007. Sorghum resolved as a distinct genus based on combined ITS1, ndhF and Adh1 analyses. Pl. Syst. Evol. 268:29–43. [this study shows that this taxon clusters within a well supported clade with other members of section Eusorghum, and sister to S. bicolor subsp. drummondii].
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • 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)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
  • Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Price, H. J. et al. 2005. Genome evolution in the genus Sorghum. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 95:219–227. [this study using ITS/ndhF based phylogeny finds that this taxon clusters with other taxa 2n=20, 40 & small genomes, supporting affinities with S. bicolor].
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Rollins, R. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 1986. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 89:297.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
  • Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47. (L Grass Argent)
  • de Wet, J. M. J. 1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:478.
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Check other databases for Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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
  • 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:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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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