Taxon: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench nothosubsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse

• de Wet failed to provide a full reference to the basionym, citing only S. drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase
• = S. bicolor subsp. bicolor × S. bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum

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:

CA(perennial sweet sudangrass)*°, DE(perennial sweet sudangrass)°, IN(only shattercane)*, NJ(perennial sweet sudangrass)°, NV(perennial sweet sudangrass)°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See other conspecific taxa:

• Sorghum bicolor (43 accessions)
• Sorghum bicolor subsp. bicolor (45189 accessions)
• Sorghum bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum (61 accessions)

Common names:

• chicken-corn   (Source: Amer J Bot 65:481.) – English
  
• shattercane   (Source: Crop Sci 12:176.1972) – English
  
• sordan   (Source: D. Krizek, p.c. [via email on 15 Nov 2000]) – English
  
• sorghum-sudangrass   (Source: Federal Seed Act [as S. ×drummondii]) – English
  
• Sudan grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sorgho du Soudan   (Source: Dict Rehm [as S. ×drummondii]) – French
  
• sorgho menu   (Source: Dict Rehm [as S. ×drummondii]) – French
  
• Sudangras   (Source: Dict Rehm [as S. ×drummondii]) – German
  
• sorgo gentile   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• pasto Sudán   (Source: Dict Rehm [as S. ×drummondii]) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database, as S. ×drummondii)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Book, as Sudangrass)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of sorghum   (fide Godwin 136. 2000 as "Sorghum sudanensis")
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury, as S. sudanense; Kellerman et al.)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Amer J Bot 65:481. 1978)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• may occur as weed wherever sorghum is cultivated

• one form (Sudangrass) widely cultivated for forage

References:

• Crop Sci. (Madison) 12:176.
• Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch.
• De Wet, J. M. J. 1978. Systematics and evolution of Sorghum sect. Sorghum (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 65:481.
• Dillon, S. L. et al. 2007. Sorghum resolved as a distinct genus based on combined ITS1, ndhF and Adh1 analysis. Pl. Syst. Evol. 268:29–43.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Godwin, I. 2009. Plant germplasm collections as sources of useful genes. In: Newbury, H. J., Plant molecular breeding. 134–151. [= Sorghum sudanensis].
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Krizek, D. 2008. pers. comm. [re. common names].
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• 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. [= S. ×drummondii].
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [= S. ×drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase].
• Wiersema, J. H. & J. Dahlberg. 2007. The nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench (Gramineae). Taxon 56:944.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:600. [= S. ×drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chase].

Synonyms:

• (≡) Andropogon drummondii Steud. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Andropogon sorghum var. drummondii (Steud.) Hack.
  
• (=) Andropogon sorghum subsp. hewisonii Piper
  
• (=) Andropogon sorghum subsp. sudanensis Piper
  
• (=) Holcus sorghum var. hewisonii (Piper) Hitchc.
  
• (=) Holcus sorghum var. sudanensis (Piper) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (≡) Sorghum bicolor var. drummondii (Steud.) Mohlenbr.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Sorghum ×drummondii (Steud.) Nees ex Millsp. & Chase
  (previously associated with 101 accessions)
• (=) Sorghum hewisonii (Piper) Longley
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Sorghum niloticum (Stapf ex Piper) Snowden
  
• (=) Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf
  (previously associated with 54 accessions)
• (≡) Sorghum vulgare var. drummondii (Steud.) Hitchc.
  
• (=) Sorghum vulgare var. sudanense (Piper) Hitchc.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)

Check other web resources for Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench nothosubsp. drummondii (Steud.) de Wet ex Davidse:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Inflorescence branch: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• 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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