Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Echinochloa crus-galli [Echinochloa crusgalli] [Panicum crusgalli]
- Family
- Poaceae
- CommonName
- barnyard grass, Japanese millet
- Presence
- yes
- Status
- exotic
- EarliestDate
- 1932
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- basin, ruderal, urban
- Geobotanical
- UBasin
- Counties
- Alamosa, Saguache
- Passes
- WildlifePreserves
- Baca
- Other Localities
- Alamosa (town)
- Comments
- Barnyard grass has not often been recorded from the Watershed, in fact only seven times so far. Echinochloa crus-galli favors wet ground and lower elevations (not over 8,000' according to Ackerfield, 2022). It has been found in ditches and around ponds and storm drains. The species is present in every USA state, and follows the Rio Grande drainage solidly through New Mexico and on down, in a scattered fashion, to the Gulf of Mexico. The grain is edible for livestock. Linnaeus found it introduced in Europe from Eurasia and gave it a rather barbaric name: "cock's-spur spiny grass." Note that Echinochloa crus-galli is one of the few grasses without a ligule.
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