Cenchrus americanus
ಸಜ್ಜೆबजड़ीகம்பு
Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.4 m
- wide
- 76 cm
Poaceae
Formerly Cenchrus spicatus, Chaetochloa glauca, Chamaeraphis glauca, Holcus racemosus, and 41 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Benin to S. Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 61 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Chinese
- 御谷
- Hindi
- बजड़ी
- Tamil
- கம்பு
- Telugu
- సజ్జలు
- Kannada
- ಸಜ್ಜೆ
- Marathi
- बाजरी
- Malayalam
- ബജ്റ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Cenchrus americanus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.