Taxon: Cenchrus echinatus L.

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:

AZ*°, CA*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• bur grass   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English
  
• hedgehog grass   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• innocent-weed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Mossman River grass   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• southern sandbur   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• southern sandbur grass   (Source: NPB State Noxweed CA [http://nationalplantboard.org/docs/summaries/california.pdf]) – English
  
• spiny sandbur   (Source: BSBI CA) – English
  
• capim-amoroso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-carrapicho   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-roseta   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-timbete   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cadillo   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – Spanish
  
• guizazo   (Source: Grass Cuba II) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Paraguay; Uruguay

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Marshall Islands

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Davidse, G. et al., eds. 1994. Flora mesoamericana.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). [introduced].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 39:139–247.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hammel, B. E. et al., eds. 2003–. Manual de plantas de Costa Rica.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• National Plant Board. 2008–. National Plant Board federal and state quarantine summaries.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Releford, J. S. et al. 2009. Flora of Rongelap and Ailinginae Atolls, Republic of the Marshalls Islands. Atoll Res. Bull. 572:1–13.
• 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.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:146.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Cenchrus echinatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Cenchrus echinatus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Cenchrus echinatus.

Check other web resources for Cenchrus echinatus L.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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

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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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