Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

  • Authority

    Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

  • Description

    Description - A glabrous tufted annual, the culms compressed, branching at the more or less decumbent base; blades flat, linear, about 5 mm. wide, sometimes barred with purplish brown ; racemes usually 5 to 10, ascending, distant nearly their own length on the strict axis.