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Spartina patens var. juncea Perennial, warm, native, poor grazing for wildlife and good grazing for livestock 12-50" tall with slender stems produced from rhizomes. The leaf blades usually roll inward. The inflorescence have two to several spikes which are spread along the axis. Decreases with heavy grazing. Area 2. |
Sorghum halepense Perennial, warm, introduced, fair grazing for wildlife, good grazing for livestock. 3-6' tall stems growing from extensively creeping scaly rhizomes. The blades are flat, blue-green and often splotched with purple caused by a bacterial disease. The panicles are large, open with branchlets mostly in whorls of four. The awns soon fall leaving shiny, fuzzy fruit. Grows in fields and waste places. Under certain growth conditions produces prussic acid which is poisonous to livestock. Areas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. |
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Updated: May 23, 1997