Sorghum

Sorghum bicolor
250 (400)cm, is a fast growing annual with impressively tall stems crowned by ornamental brownish-black seeds in dense spikes above long lanceolate leaves.

Genus Sorghum
Perennial or annual , with or without rhizomes. Culms usually robust , erect . Leaf blades linear to linear-lanceolate; ligule a ciliate membrane .

Sorghum
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tall, coarse annual (Sorghum vulgare) of the family Gramineae ( family), somewhat similar in appearance to (but having the grain in a panicle rather than an ear) and used for much the same purposes.

Sorghum halepense
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Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense) is sometimes regarded as an environmental weed in New South Wales and Victoria. It was recently listed as a priority environmental weed in two Natural Resource Management regions.
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Sorghum halepense ( Johnsongrass )
Sparaxis elegans ( Coccinea Harlequin Flower )
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Grain Sorghums, Broomcorn, Africa, Jowar, Milo, India
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Aleppo grass Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. (Category 2)
Aleppo pine Pinus halepensis Mill. (Category 2)
Ant Tree Triplaris americana L. (Category 1)
American bramble Rubus cuneifolius Pursh and hybrid (Category 1) ...

Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense) is a warm-season grass that forms large colonies from stout, finger-sized, much-branched rhizomes. A medium-sized plant can produce up to 60 feet of rhizomes in a single year.

broom-corn; shattercane; sorghum Sorghum bicolor
broomsedge bluestem Andropogon virginicus
brown knapweed; brown-ray knapweed Centaurea jacea
buffalo grass; Dutch grass; para grass Urochloa mutica
buffalobur nightshade Solanum rostratum ...

Milo - Sorghum vulgare
Mimbrera - Salix purpurea
Mimo - Nicotiana glauca
Mímulo - Mimulus guttatus
Mímulo púrpura - Mimulus kelloggii
Mímulo rojo - Mimulus cardinalis
Mímulo rosa - Mimulus lewisii
Mímulo viscoso - Mimulus aurantiacus ...

Sorghum and Zea (Panicoideae) and Oryza (Ehrhartoideae) are three other important grain genera.

When no flowers are present, cogongrass may look somewhat similar to Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense), but cogongrass leaves are longer and the stems are not so evident.

PREVENTION: Johnsongrass and other sorghums may be grazed safely throughout most of the growing season. Extra care must be taken when the grass is young, especially if damaged somehow.

Of all the families plants, the Poaceae, or grass family, is by far the most important, providing the bulk of all feedstocks (rice, corn - maize, wheat, barley, rye, oats, pearl millet, sugar cane, sorghum).

According to another theory, the base word is an Iberic cognate to Italian meligo sorghum, millet, although the diminutive appears less plausible. Also, borrowing from an African tongue has been suggested.

The CHINESE SUGAR MAPLE is Sorghum saccharatum (known also as Andropogon arundinaceus, var. saccharatus), a cane-like plant containing sugary sap, belonging to the Grass family Graminaceae.

It provides most of our food in the form of cereals (for example, wheat, rice, barley, oats, millet, maize, sorghum) and sugar (sugar cane).

Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense)
Jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica)
Perennial sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris)
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It is common in fields, groves, roadsides and other disturbed sites from the peninsula west to the central panhandle of Florida and Escambia county (Wunderlin, 2003). It looks very similar to another invasive plant, Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense).

See also: Grass, Corn, Green, May, India