Barnyardgrass
सांवा घासകവട്ടবুড়াশ্যামা ঘাস
Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P.Beauv.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 20 cm
Poaceae
Also called Barnyard grass, Cockspur, Barnyard Millet, Cockspur Grass
Formerly Milium crus-galli, Oplismenus crus-galli, Orthopogon crus-galli, Panicum crus-galli, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. & E. Europe to Asia, W., E. & S. Trop. Africa to S. Africa, MadagascarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 20 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ECHCRU, joang-ba-masimo, pawai
- Japanese
- イヌビエ, ノビエ
- Korean
- 돌피
- Russian
- Ежовник обыкновенный, Ежовник куриное просо
- French
- Panic des marais, Pied-de-coq, Panic pied-de-coq
- Hebrew
- דחנית התרנגולים
- German
- Hühnerhirse, Gewöhnliche Hühnerhirse
- Czech
- ježatka kuří noha
- Chinese
- 稗, 稗、大骨草, 稗根苗
- Danish
- Almindelig hanespore
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hønsehirse
- Italian
- Giavone comune
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Echinochloa crus-galli (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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