T14S.R13E Pima County.AZ 050813 - Arizona Native Plant Society

color presentation), 68 (recorded as Echinochloa colonum (L.) Link), 77 (recorded as Echinochloa colonum (L.) Link), 85(110611 - color presentation of dried materials), 89 (reported under Miscellaneous Introduced Species as being a long-livedannual herb, also recorded as Echinochloa colona (L.) Link var. zonale (Guss.) Dewey), 101 (color photograph), 124 (110611),127, 140 (Page 299)*Echinochloa colona var. zonale (see footnote 89 under Echinochloa colona)Echinochloa colonum (see Echinochloa colona)Echinochloa crus-galli (C. Linnaeus) A.M. Palisot de Beauvois: BarnyardgrassCOMMON NAMES: Ankee Millet (Iowa); Arrocillo (Spanish); Barn Grass; Barn Yard Grass (a name also applied toother species); Barn-grass (a name also applied to other species); Barngrass (a name also applied to other species); BarnyardGrass (a name also applied to other species and the genus Echinochloa, Nebraska); Barnyard Millet (a name also applied to thegenus Echinochloa); Barnyard-grass (a name also applied to other species and the genus Echinochloa, Nebraska); Barnyardgrass(a name also applied to other species); Chicken Panic; Chicken Panic Grass; Chicken Panicgrass; Chicken-panic Grass; Chickenpanic-grass;Cock’s Foot (a name also applied to other species); Cock’s-foot (a name also applied to other species); Cock-spurBarnyard Grass; Cocks Foot Grass (a name also applied to other species); Cocks-foot Grass (a name also applied to otherspecies); Cock-spur Barnyard Grass; Cocksfoot Panicum; Cockspur (a name also applied to the genus Echinochloa); CockspurBarnyard Grass; Cockspur Grass (a name also applied to the genus Echinochloa); Cockspur-grass (a name also applied to thegenus Echinochloa); Common Barnyard Grass; Common Barnyard-grass; Common Barnyardgrass; Common Cockspur;Common Cockspur Grass; Crusgalli Barnyard Grass; Echinochloa Pied-de-coq (French); Gewöhnliche Hühnerhirse (German);Grama Morada (Hispanic); Hedgehog Grass; Hühnerhirse (German); Japanese Millet (a name also applied to other species);Large Barnyard Grass; Large Barnyard-grass; Large Barnyardgrass; Large Crowfoot Grass (New Mexico); Loose Panic Grass;Loose Panic-grass; Mexican Barnyard Grass; Pasto Alemán (Hispanic); Pasto Mijillo (Hispanic); Pata de Gallo (Spanish); Pie deGallina (Spanish); Pied-de-coq (French); Sanwak (India); Water Grass (a name also applied to other species); Water-grass (aname also applied to other species); Watergrass (a name also applied to other species); Zacate de Agua (Spanish); Zacate deCorral (Hispanic). DESCRIPTION: Terrestrial annual graminoid (spreading, decumbent and/or erect culms 4 to 83 inches inheight; one plant was described as being 4 feet in height an 40 inches in diameter at the base); the foliage may be gray-green oryellow-green; the leaves may have purple bands; flowering generally takes place between mid-May and early November;however, flowering year round has been reported (additional record: one for mid-December). HABITAT: Within the range ofthis species it has been reported from mountains; gravelly-sandy and sandy mesas; gravelly-sandy plateaus; bases of cliffs; rockyand gravelly-loamy canyons; rocky, rocky-sandy, sandy and loamy canyon bottoms; pockets of soil; bluffs; ridges; ridgetops;openings in woodlands; loamy meadows; escarpments; rocky, gravelly, sandy, sandy-clayey-loamy, loamy, clayey and clayeyloamyslopes; amongst cobbles; gravelly-sandy plains; gravelly, gravelly-loamy and sandy flats; uplands; hollows; valley floors;coastal plains; along gravelly and sandy-loamy roadbeds; along gravelly, gravelly-loamy, gravelly-clayey-loamy, sandy andsandy-loamy roadsides; arroyos; along draws; gulches; gullies; bottoms of gullies; ravines; sandy and clayey seeps; springs;along and in sandy streams; along and in rocky-sandy and sandy streambeds; along creeks; within rocky creekbeds; along and inrivers; in cobbly-sandy and sandy riverbeds; along and in rocky and sandy washes; within drainages; poolbeds; along and inponds; muddy pondbeds; along lakes; clayey lakebeds; bogs; ciénegas; clayey freshwater marshes; swamps; clayey-muddydepressions; within muddy sloughs; swales; along (muddy, gravelly-sandy, sandy-loamy and sandy) banks of springs, streams,creeks, rivers, washes, ponds and lakes; along (muddy, rocky and sandy) edges of streams, creeks, rivers, watercourses, ponds,lakes and sloughs; along (sandy and clayey) margins of creeks and ponds; along (sandy-loamy) shores of ponds and lakes;mudflats; gravel, gravelly-sand and sand bars; sandy beaches; sandy benches; along terraces; sandy bottomlands; sandyfloodplains; lowlands; fencelines; dams; levees; in mud around stock tanks (charcos, represos); muddy edges and shores ofreservoirs; along and in muddy canals; muddy canal banks; along sandy-clayey ditches; along clayey-loamy ditch banks; cobblysandyriparian areas; waste places, and disturbed areas growing in shallow water; muddy, and wet, moist, damp and dry bouldery,rocky, rocky-sandy, cobbly, cobbly-sandy, gravelly, gravelly-sandy and sandy ground; gravelly loam, gravelly-clayey loam,sandy loam, sandy-clayey loam, clay loam, silty loam, humus-clayey loam and loam ground, and sandy clay, loamy clay and clayground, occurring from sea level to 9,600 feet in elevation in the forest, woodland, scrub, grassland, desertscrub and wetlandecological formations. NOTES: EXOTIC Invasive Plant that poses a significant threat to our native biotic communities. Thisplant was reported to have been utilized by native peoples of North America; it was noted as having been used for food.Echinochloa crus-galli is native to Europe. *5, 6, 30, 33 (Pages 276-277), 43 (100809), 44 (041411), 46 (Page 138), 58, 63(100809 - color presentation), 68, 80 (Barnyard Grass is listed as a Rarely Poisonous and Suspected Poisonous Range Plant “Thisannual grass has been reported to develop toxic levels of nitrate.”), 85 (110611 - color presentation of dried material), 89(reported under Miscellaneous Introduced Species as being a long-lived annual herb), 101 (color photograph), 124 (041411),127*Elymus elymoides (C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz) G.D. Swezey: SquirreltailCOMMON NAMES: Alkali Rye; Barb Goatgrass; Beardless Wild Rye; Bottle Brush (a name also applied to otherspecies); Bottle Brush Grass; Bottle Brush Squirrel Tail; Bottle Brush Squirreltail; Bottle-brush Squirreltail; Bottle-brushSquirrel-tail; Bottlebrush Squirrel Tail; Bottlebrush Squirrel-tail; Bottlebrush Squirreltail; Common Squirrel-tail; CommonSquirreltail (subsp. elymoides); Creeping Wild Rye; Long-bristle Wild Rye; Long-bristled Wild Rye; Long-bristled Wild-rye;50