Weed
brownbeard rice, wild red rice, red rice
SpikeletSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.
OvalOval:
Broadly elliptic.
Light brown
Striate laterally; scattered appressedAppressed:
Pressed close or lying flat against something.
hairs.
Awned
Laterally compressed and hard like lemmaLemma:
One of two bracts of the grass floret; it is located on the side nearest the embryo and opposite the rachilla.
GlumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
are short and appressedAppressed:
Pressed close or lying flat against something.
to base.
CaryopsisCaryopsis:
The single-seeded fruit or grain of the grass family (Poaceae); the fruit wall (pericarp) is united with the seed coat (testa).
with dark red pericarpPericarp:
Fruit wall; derived from the ovary wall.
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State Noxious Weed: California, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas
Federal
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Not included
Poaceae
Oryza rufipogon Griff.
Oryza perennis Moench
