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Echinochloa oryzicola
Also called Early Water Grass, Hairy Millet, Early Watergrass
Early barnyard grass is an annual grass species that grows in temperate climates and is a common weed of rice paddies and wet ground. It is grown as a weed rather than a garden plant, and it can be hard to control in fields.
Echinochloa oryzicola, also called late watergrass or echinochloa phyllopogon, is an annual species of monocot grass that grows in temperate climates. It is native to East Asia, and is found in China, Korea, Japan and the Russian Far East near Vladivostok. It has been introduced into Europe, in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, and also the Transcaucasus. As a weed, some examples in Portugal have developed resistance to Group A and Group B herbicides.
Jungle rice · Barnyardgrass · Gulf cockspur grass · Japanese millet · Billion-dollar grass · Early water grass · Creeping river grass · Hippo grass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Echinochloa oryzicola 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.
