Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

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Poaceae / Gramineae
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link.
(Syn: Panicum colonum (L.) Link.)
English name: Jungle rice, water grass.
Local name: Sanwak, Naanglee.
Description:
An annual tufted decumbent or sub-ascending grass; 10-100 cm high, leaves
sometimes with transverse purple-red markings, stem shortly creeping below,
smooth, dull green or partly purplish, spikes green or purple-tinged.
Flowering Period:
May to September.
Habitat:
Grows on the margins of water channels in cultivated fields
and other water-logged places.
Uses:
One of the finest fodder grasses and is eagerly eaten by
cattle both before and after flowering.
Distribution:
Pakistan (Sindh, Baluchistan, Punjab, KPK & Kashmir);
throughout the tropics and subtropics.