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

Family: GRAMINEAE (POACEAE)

Genus: Echinochloa

Catalan common name: Cerreig. Panissola. Pota de gall. Xereix de pota de gall.

Spanish common name: Mijera. Panicillo.

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Barcelona. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Cosmopolitan and subcosmopolitan

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Cultivated fields, path and road sides, disturbed zones. Non-saline wetlands (intermittent watercourses, streams, artesian wells, ditches). Torrents and humid cultivated fields.

Characteristics: A Gramene with racemes of spikelets all of which are dense, often branched, and reddish; they are unequivocally characteristic due to the presence of long rigid hairs between the spikelets, which gives them a hairy appearance. The size of the racemes allows us to distinguish it from Echinochloa colonum. It lives in disturbed places and farmlands with moist soils. It flowers in summer and autumn.