Poaceae
Rough barnyardgrass
Echinochloa muricata
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Echinochloa
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Echinochloa muricataPoaceae
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Common names
By language (6)
- Chinese
- 糙穗稗
- Dutch
- Stekelige hanenpoot
- English
- Rough barnyardgrass
- Finnish
- Lännenkananhirssi
- French
- Panic muriqué, Panic épineux, Échinochloé muriqué
- German
- Stachel-Hühnerhirse
Synonyms
- Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. muricata (P.Beauv.) Shinners
- Echinochloa crus-galli var. michauxii House
- Echinochloa crus-galli var. microstachya (Wiegand) Shinners
- Echinochloa crus-galli var. muricata (P.Beauv.) Farw.
- Echinochloa microstachya (Wiegand) Rydb.
- Echinochloa muricata subsp. microstachya (Wiegand) Jauzein
- Echinochloa muricata var. ludoviciana Wiegand
- Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya Wiegand
- Echinochloa muricata var. multiflora Wiegand
- Echinochloa muricata var. muricata
- Echinochloa muricata var. wiegandii (Fassett) Mohlenbr.
- Echinochloa pungens (Poir.) Rydb.
- Echinochloa pungens var. coarctata Fernald & Griscom
- Echinochloa pungens var. ludoviciana (Wiegand) Fernald & Griscom
- Echinochloa pungens var. microstachya (Wiegand) Fernald & Griscom
- Echinochloa pungens var. multiflora (Wiegand) Fernald & Griscom
- Echinochloa pungens var. pungens
- Echinochloa pungens var. wiegandii Fassett
- Echinochloa wiegandii (Fassett) McNeill & Dore
- Oplismenus muricatus Kunth
- Panicum muricatum Michx.
- Panicum pungens Poir.
- Setaria muricata P.Beauv.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Annual
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native, U.S. Virgin Islands: introduced
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.