Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

Poaceae / Gramineae
Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.
(Syn: Panicum crus-galli L.)
English name: Japanese millet, Barnyard grass.
Local name: Burut gaa h.
Description:
A common annual grass of cultivated beds and adapted nearly all types of wet
places; 25-100 cm high, erect or ascending. Inflorescence linear to ovate, 6-22 cm
long, the racemes untidily 2-several-rowed, the longest 2-10 cm long, usually with
short secondary branchlets at the base. Spikelets ovate-elliptic, mostly 3-4 mm
long, distinctly awned.
Flowering Period:
June to October.
Habitat:
Common in marshy places and rice fields.
Uses:
It is a good fodder grass.
Distribution:
Pakistan (Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, KPK, Gilgit and
Kashmir); warm temperate and subtropical regions of the
World, extending into the tropics (but scarcely so inAfrica).
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