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Echinochloa frumentacea Link
billion-dollar grass

   
Symbol: ECFR
Group: Monocot
Family: Poaceae
Duration: Annual
Growth Habit: Graminoid
Native Status:  
L48    I
CAN    I



Photograph of Echinochloa frumentacea Link
Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950.
 
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Synonyms:
Echinochloa frumentacea Link

  ECCRE2 Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. ssp. edulis Hitchc.
  ECCRF Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. var. frumentacea (Roxb.) W. Wight
  PAFR4 Panicum frumentaceum Roxb., non Salisb.
 

Distribution by State:
Echinochloa frumentacea Link

Distributional Map for Echinochloa frumentacea Link
Distribution Map Legend

Echinochloa frumentacea Link distribution:
USA (AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, IA, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (MB, ON)

County distributions for the following U.S. states are available at PLANTS:
AL, CA, DC, IL, KY, MO, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, WI

 

Related Taxa:
Echinochloa frumentacea Link

338 genera in Poaceae, 20 species in Echinochloa
 

Classification:
Echinochloa frumentacea Link

     
Kingdom   Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom   Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision   Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division   Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class   Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass   Commelinidae
Order   Cyperales
Family   Poaceae – Grass family
Genus   Echinochloa P. Beauv. – cockspur grass
Species   Echinochloa frumentacea Link – billion-dollar grass
 

Introduced Information:
Echinochloa frumentacea Link

This plant is introduced to some part of the PLANTS Floristic Area, though it may be native in other parts.
 

 

 
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