Echinochloa crus-galli(L.) P.Beauv.

barnyardgrass

WFO wfo-0000865236 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Greg Tasney
fig. a Greg Tasney, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-13 / obs. 187846639
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182512983
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180479108
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Leon Perrie
fig. d Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178296604
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Lsf
fig. e Lsf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170835719
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Eduardo Luis Beltrocco
fig. f Eduardo Luis Beltrocco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178610978
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Radosław Puchałka
fig. g Radosław Puchałka, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166925778
Echinochloa crus-galli, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. h Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162478080

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Flowering n = 310 observations

Peak flowering in Aug, from 310 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 150 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Digitaria hispidula (Retz.) Willd.
  • Echinochloa caudata Roshev.
  • Echinochloa crus-corvi (L.) P.Beauv.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. atra (Kuntze) Soó
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. breviseta (Döll) Pinto de Silva
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. breviseta (Gaudin) P.Silva
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. crus-galli
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. echinata (Willd.) Morariu
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. exigua (Holuby) Soó
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. longiseta (Trin.) Farw.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. mitis (Pursh) Farw.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. mixta (A.F.Schwarz) Soó
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. mutica (Vasinger) Morariu
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. purpurea (Pursh) Farw.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. rohlenae (Domin) Soó
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. submutica (Neilr.) Morariu
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. viridissima (Honda) Kitag.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. vittata F.T.Hubb.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli f. zelayensis (Kunth) Farw.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. caudata (Roshev.) Tzvelev
  • Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. erecta (Pollacci) Cif. & Giacom.
  • Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. hispidula (Retz.) Honda
  • Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. spiralis (Vasinger) Tzvelev
  • Echinochloa crus-galli subsp. submutica (Neilr.) Honda

and 126 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.