junglerice
| COMMON NAME: | Junglerice | |
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| SCIENTIFIC NAME: | Echinochloa colona | |
| FAMILY: | Poaceae | |
| LIFECYCLE: | Annual | |
| FEATURES: | Growth habit: prostrate to upright growth habit depending on management conditions; Stem: rounded and glabrous with plant bending at the nodes; Leaf: glabrous 4 to 10 inches long with a white mid-rib; Collar: ligule absent, white glabrous collar region; Inflorescence: panicles with 4 to 10 alternating racemes dispersed upward on the inflorescence, racemes are awnless. |
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| DESCRIPTION: | Plant glabrous throughout and lack of ligule are identifying characteristics. Distinguished from barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli) by awns on racemes- not present on junglerice, whereas present on barnyardgrass. |
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