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'''Echinochloa''' is a genus, some of whose members are grown as cereal or fodder crops, grouped with the millets, and known by common names including 'barnyard millet' and 'billion-dollar grass'.
Domesticated species are:

★ ''Echinochloa esculenta'' (Japanese Millet)

★ ''Echinochloa frumentacea'' (White Millet)

★ ''Echinochloa stagnina''
Wild species include:

★ ''Echinochloa caudata''

★ ''Echinochloa colona'' (Shama Millet)

★ ''Echinochloa crus-galli'' (Barnyard grass/Cockspur)

★ ''Echinochloa oryzoides'' (Early water grass)

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Reference

External links

★ Plants for a Future database on ''E. crus-galli''

★ 'Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1: Grains', Chapter 14: Wild Grains

★ 'Alternative Field Crops Manual': Millets

Reference

Pheng, S., B. Khiev, C. Pol and G. C. Jahn 2001. Response of two rice cultivars to the competition of ''Echinochloa crus-gali'' (L.) P. Beauv. International Rice Research Institute Notes (IRRN) 26 (2): 36-37.