Sorghum × drummondii (Sudan grass), is a hybrid-derived species of grass raised for forage and grain, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa. It may also be known as Sorghum bicolor × Sorghum arundinaceum after its parents.

This warm-season hybrid grass is used for forage for horses and cows, as a means of erosion control, and as a cover crop for weed suppression. Its stems are finer than other sorghum sudangrass hybrids. Growing very quickly, it surpasses other varieties of forage sorghum.

Sorghum bicolor, a native of Africa that has spread throughout the world, has three subspecies: S. bicolor bicolor, S. bicolor verticilliflorum, and S. bicolor drummondii, with distinct morphology for the respective heads (Figure 1).

2023年7月8日 · Sudangrass (Sorghum x drummondii) is a hybrid between two types of grasses in the genus Sorghum: sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and common wild sorghum (Sorghum arundinaceum), which is a grass originally from Africa and South Asia.

Sorghum x drummondii, commonly known by various names such as Chicken Corn, Hybrid Sudan, Shattercane, and Sudangrass, is a warm-season hybrid grass native to tropical and subtropical regions of Southern Egypt and Sudan. Introduced to the United States in the early 1900s, this plant has become a vital crop used primarily for forage, erosion ...

Discover the flowering plant tree of life and the genomic data used to build it. Sorghum × drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase. First published in Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 3: 21 (1903) This name is a synonym of Sorghum bicolor nothosubsp. drummondii. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012).

Sudan grass (Sorghum × drummondii (Steud.) Millsp. & Chas) is an annual grass with slender culms (3-9 mm thick) reaching up to a height of 3 m. The light green leaves are long (4-15 cm), broad (8-15 mm) and very numerous. Inflorescences are panicles ending in short fragile racemes. Spikelets are paired, 6-7 mm long.

2023年5月16日 · Sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum x drummondii) (Figure 1) is a summer-loving hybrid cover crop species. Its parents are wild sorghum, native to sub-Saharan Africa, and domesticated sorghum, known as broom corn or milo in our part of the world.

The native range of this infraspecific is W. Tropical Africa to Sudan. It is an annual or perennial and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome. The hybrid formula is S. bicolor subsp. bicolor × S. bicolor subsp. verticilliflorum. Sorghum × drummondii (Nees ex Steud.) Millsp. & Chase. Annual; culms solitary.

2024年3月22日 · Sudangrass (Sorghum × drummondii) is a hybrid-derived species of grass used as fodder for animals especially horses and cattle. The Sudangrass is native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa.