PLANTS Profile for Echinochloa colona (jungle rice)

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Echinochloa colona (L.) Link
jungle rice

Symbol:

ECCO2

Group:

Monocot

Family:

Poaceae

Duration:

Annual

Growth Habit:

Graminoid

Native Status:

L48		I
HI		I
PR		I
VI		I

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Robert H. Mohlenbrock. USDA SCS. 1991. Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Wetland Science Institute. Usage Requirements.

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Images:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

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Synonyms:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

PACO30

Panicum colonum L.

Distribution:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link


View Native Status

See U.S. county distributions (when available) by clicking on the map or the linked states below:
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, HI, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, MT, NC, NJ, NM, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA), USA+ (PR, VI)

Related Taxa:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

View 341 genera in Poaceae, 20 species in Echinochloa

Classification:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Click on a scientific name below to expand it in the PLANTS Classification Report.


Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Cyperales
Family	Poaceae – Grass family
Genus	Echinochloa P. Beauv. – cockspur grass
Species	Echinochloa colona (L.) Link – jungle rice

U.S. Weed Information:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

junglerice
watergrass

This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below. This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.

SWSS		Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS		Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Introduced Information:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

This plant is introduced to some part of the PLANTS Floristic Area, though it may be native in other parts. Click on link below for a partial or complete list of PFA introduced plants.

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Wetland Indicator Status:

NOTE: On June 1, 2012, the 2012 National Wetland Plant List superseded the information below (see Federal Register, May 9, 2012, 77(90): 27210-27214[https://federalregister.gov/a/2012-11176]). For updated wetland information about this species, see the latest wetland list.

Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Nat. Ind.

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Reg. 9

Reg. 0

Reg. A

Reg. C

Reg. H

FAC,FACW

FACW

FAC

FACW

Interpreting Wetland Indicator Status

More Accounts and Images:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

View species account and distribution from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

View species account, distribution map, and illustration from the Grass Manual on the Web.

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 40670.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

View photographs and distribution from University of Tennessee Herbarium.

View photographs and distribution from University of Washington Burke Museum.

Related Web Sites:
Echinochloa colona (L.) Link

Arizona: abstract & image of junglerice (Echinochloa colona)

UC Davis, IPM: abstract & images

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