Echinochloa crus-pavonis
Echinochloa crus-pavonis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
Genus: | Echinochloa |
Species: | E. crus-pavonis
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Binomial name | |
Echinochloa crus-pavonis |
Echinochloa crus-pavonis is a species of grass known by the common name gulf cockspur grass. It is native to much of the Americas, Africa, and part of Asia, and it is known throughout the world as an introduced species. It is an annual grass often exceeding 1.5 meters in maximum height. The inflorescence is divided into several branches coated in green spikelets.
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Categories:
- Echinochloa
- Grasses of North America
- Grasses of South America
- Grasses of Argentina
- Grasses of the United States
- Flora of the Caribbean
- Flora of Africa
- Native grasses of California
- Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
- Plants described in 1816
- Panicoideae stubs