Echinochloa phyllopogon seed

LATIN NAME: Echinochloa phyllopogon

COMMON NAME: Barnyard Grass

The barnyard grass is the tall, bold grass of the wet edge, and the dense, green heads nod over the water through the summer. The tall, upright, tufted, annual grass carries the broad, flat leaves and the dense, narrow, green or purple-tinged panicles through the late summer, one of the fine, bold sights of the wet edge and the ditch. The grass is a fine, generous presence of the wild patch and the wet garden. It is a grass of the open, sunny, moist ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The barnyard grass is a bold, useful subject of the plant science, and the dense panicles keep showing up in the work on the wild grains. The breeding of the barnyard grasses, one of the wild relatives of the millets, has been looked at closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the cereal genetics, the wild grain relatives and the members of the grass family. The broad, flat leaves and the tall, tufted habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the barnyard grass is a regular subject of the work on the bold wild grasses of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The barnyard grass is a fine, bold grass of the wet edge and the wild patch. The dense, narrow, green or purple-tinged panicles nod over the water through the late summer, and the tufts give the fine, soft cover and the seed for the water birds and the small birds of the wild edge. The grass stands the wet ground and the open sun with the ease, and it is one of the fine choices for the wild garden, the pond edge and the naturalistic planting of the moist ground. It has been written up in the agricultural and the ecological papers for the dense heads and the wet-ground ways, and it is a fine, generous grass of the open, sunny, moist garden.

The barnyard grass is one of the wild relatives of the millets, and the dense heads give the seed for the water birds. The tufts stand the wet ground and the open sun with the ease.

To grow the barnyard grass from seed, sow the small, oval seeds a centimetre down in trays of damp, free-draining soil, keep the trays in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings appear within a week and grow on tall. With the sun, the moisture and the open ground, the dense heads will nod through the late summer.