Echinochloa hispidula seed

LATIN NAME: ECHINOCHLOA HISPIDULA

COMMON NAME: Rough Barnyard Grass

The rough barnyard grass fringes the upright, clumping stems with the broad, green leaves and the dense, one-sided heads of the small, greenish or purple-tinged spikelets that open through the late summer, the whole plant carrying the bold, grassy form. The heads bend with the weight of the grains, and they feed the seed-eating birds through the autumn. The plant grows fast into the sturdy, leafy clumps, and it stands the heat and the wet ground well. It likes the sun, and the moist, rich soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

In the grass family, the barnyard grasses have a long, practical record in the grain and the fodder research, and the rough species appears in the studies of the hardy grains and the wet-field growth. The research covers the grain chemistry and the seed biology, while the botanists note the fast, sturdy clumps. The agronomists value the hardy grains, and the growers of the bird-seed grasses keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the sunny, moist garden, the rough barnyard grass fringes the late season with the grain. The dense heads feed the birds and the small animals through the autumn, the plant makes the useful fodder and the green manure, and it stands the heat and the wet ground well. It grows fast into the sturdy, leafy clumps. Easy, hardy and generous.

To grow the Rough Barnyard Grass from seed,

Rake the seeds into the top of the moist, open drill, then cover them lightly, keep the drill moist, and the seedlings break through within a week or two

Keep the drill watered through the dry weeks, and thin the plants for the sturdy clumps. The grain heads form by the late summer.

. Grow the young clumps in the sunny, moist ground, and the grain heads will fringe the late summer over the years.