Poaceae
Creeping river grass
Echinochloa polystachya
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Echinochloa
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Echinochloa polystachyaPoaceae
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Creeping river grass
Synonyms
- Echinochloa polystachya var. polystachya
- Echinochloa polystachya var. spectabilis (Nees ex Trin.) Mart.Crov.
- Echinochloa spectabile Link
- Echinochloa spectabilis (Nees ex Trin.) Link
- Oplismenus polystachyus Kunth
- Oplismenus spectabilis (Nees ex Trin.) Kunth
- Orthopogon hirsutus Spreng. ex Steud.
- Panicum bonplandianum Steud.
- Panicum phyllanthum Steud.
- Panicum polystachyum (Kunth) Steud.
- Panicum spectabile Nees ex Trin.
- Pseudechinolaena spectabilis (Nees ex Trin.) Herter
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native, Puerto Rico: native
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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.