Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Echinochloa muricata
Echinochloa muricata (P. Beauv.) Fernald
American Barnyard Grass, Rough Barnyard Grass, Barnyard Grass, American Cockspur Grass, Wild Millet
Poaceae (Grass Family)
USDA Symbol: ECMU2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), VI (I), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Echinchloa muricata
Cockspur, Barnyard Grass
Poaceae
Location: W side of Holbrook Rd, 200 m N of Rittiman Rd, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: In mud of slow flowing, fresh water. Full sun.
Description: Annual to 80+ cm tall. Culms erect, occasionally spreading. Nodes glabrous, slightly swollen. Sheaths glabrous, ligules absent. Blades to 2.5 mm broad, margins minutely serrate. Panicles 10-30 cm long w/spreading, distant branches 2-8 cm long. Spikelets green or purple, echinate w/papilla based hairs.
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Aug 5, 1994
Specimen number: 658
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0942
Accession Date: Oct 27, 1994
Accession Number: 73
Annotations: SXFRB (In fruit)
!FRW 1995