Echinochloa muricata (Palisot de Beauvois) Fernald var. microstachya Wiegand. Common name: Rough Barnyard-grass. Phenology: Jul-Oct. Habitat: Alluvial swamps, river shores and bars, depression ponds, interdune swales, low fields, beaver impoundments, manmade impoundments, other moist to wet disturbed habitats. Distribution: NL west to BC, south to FL, TX, CA, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, Can, ETx1, FNA25, K4, Mi, Mo1, NcTx, NE, NS, NY, Tn, Va, WH3; = Echinochloa microstachya (Wiegand) Rydb. — G; < Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) P.Beauv. — GW1, RAB, SFla, WV; < Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P.Beauv. ssp. crus-galli — S; < Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald — Mex, Pa; > Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald var. microstachya Wiegand — Il; > Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald var. multiflora (Wiegand) Fernald & Griscom — F; > Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald var. wiegandii Fassett — F, Il; > Echinochloa pungens (Poir.) Rydb. var. microstachya (Wiegand) Fernald & Griscom — F; Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald var. microstachya Wiegand. Basionym: Echinochloa muricata (P.Beauv.) Fernald var. microstachya Wiegand 1921
Links to other floras: = Echinochloa muricata var. microstachya - FNA25
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Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Great Plains: FACW (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Midwest: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
- Northcentral & Northeast: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
Heliophily ⓘ: 7
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