BARNYARD GRASS
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Echinochloa muricata (Beauv. ) Fernald
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| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 1 to 5 feet |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: July, August, September |
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| Culms: | | Decumbent to ascending or erect, stout, glabrous. | | Blades: | | Flat, 4-20 inches long, 1/4 to 3/4 inch wide, smooth, mid-vein conspicuous; margins wavy-toothed. | | Sheaths: | | Glabrous. | | Ligules: | | Absent. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles, erect or nodding, 3-12 inches long, pale green to purplish; branches 5-12, pressed together or spreading. | | Spikelets: | | Round, 1- or 2-flowered, arranged in 2 rows on 1 side of each branch rachis; sterile lemma and second glume usually bearing bristles that arise from blister-like bases; second glume pointed or bearing short awn; sterile lemma pointed or bearing awn to 3/5 inch long; fertile lemma rigid, somewhat flattened; tip firm, stiff, not separated from lemma body by line of hairs. | | Habitat: | | Moist, open, disturbed areas, cultivated fields, corrals, and waste sites. | | Distribution: | | Throughout Kansas. | | Forage Value: | | Barnyard grass has fair forage value when grazed early, but it is unpalatable at maturity. | | Uses: | | Birds will consume the seeds. Some Native American tribes used the seeds for food. | | Comments: | | Tufted or solitary-stemmed. |
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| Barnyard grass |  | | 170 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Barnyard grass inflorescence |  | | 95 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Barnyard grass leaf |  | | 83 KB | | 83Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
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