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Echinochloa muricata
Also called American Barnyard Grass, Prickly Barnyard Grass, Rough Barnyard Grass, Rough Cockspur
Rough barnyardgrass is an annual grass in the Poaceae family, growing 0.5 to 1 m tall, native to North America and parts of Eurasia. It is mainly a weed of crop fields rather than a garden plant, so it is not usually grown deliberately.
Echinochloa muricata is a species of grass known by the common names rough barnyard grass and American barnyard grass. It is native to Eurasia and much of North America.
It is an annual grass growing one half to one meter in height.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echinochloa muricata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
