Sorghum bicolor |
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milo, shattercane, sorghum |
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Habit | Plants annual or sometimes short-lived perennials, 50–500 cm tall, culms solitary or clustered, not rhizomatous. |
Culms | 1–5 cm thick. |
Leaves | blades flat, 5–100 mm wide, glabrous or slightly scabrous. |
Inflorescences | open or dense, 5–60 × 3–30 cm, brown; disarticulation tardy or not occurring. |
Glumes | hard or leathery to membranous, glabrous to densely hairy; keels winged. |
Caryopses | exposed at maturity or not. |
Sessile spikelets | 3–9 mm; bisexual, dorsiventrally compressed. |
Pedicellate spikelets | 3–6 mm, staminate or sterile. |
Upper lemmas | awnless or awned; lemma awns; if present, 5–30 mm; bent and twisted. |
Anthers | 2–2.8 mm. |
2n | =20, 40. |
Sorghum bicolor |
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Distribution | |
Discussion | Disturbed areas, cultivated felds. 50–600m. Casc, Col, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; eastern Canada, throughout US; tropical and temperate regions worldwide. Exotic. Sterile Sorghum bicolor plants may resemble corn. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 480 Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
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Synonyms | Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor |
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