Echinochloa muricata (Beauv.) Fern. var. muricata
Detail
- Family
- Poaceae
- Botanical Name
- Echinochloa muricata (Beauv.) Fern. var. muricata
- Common Name
- Rough Barnyard Grass
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Echinochloa muricata (Beauv.) Fern. var. muricata
- Comments
- Very similar to E. crusgalli var. crusgalli, with which it has often been lumped in older Virginia studies. Based on herbarium specimens, var. muricata is by far the most common of the two vars. of E. muricata in Virginia, as well as in eastern North American generally. See also map and comments for E. muricata var. microstachya.
- Habitat
- Alluvial swamps (especially seasonally flooded sloughs), river shores and bars, depression ponds and impoundments, interdune swales, low fields, beaver wetlands, and other low, disturbed habitats. Frequent statewide.
- Native Status
- Native
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