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Panic liverseed grass

Urochloa panicoides

Also called Sharp Flowered Signal Grass, Liverseed Grass, Sharp Flower Signal Grass, Urochloa Grass, Annual Signal Grass, Garden Grass, Garden Urochloa

Panic liverseed grass
Photo: USDA APHIS PPQ Archive, USDA APHIS PPQ, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0 us
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Egypt to S. Africa and Indo-China
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Urochloa panicoides is a fodder grass originating in Southern Africa.

Where it grows

This grass is native to southern Africa. It has naturalized elsewhere, including Australia, Argentina, India and the United States.

Other Urochloa plants

Urochloa nigropedata · Caribgrass · Palisade grass · Deflexed brachiaria · Congo Grass · Browntop signalgrass · African liverseed grass · Para grass · Plantain signalgrass · Dixie signalgrass · Texas signalgrass · Signalgrass

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Urochloa panicoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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