Genus Sporobolus (Noun)
Meaning
Cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass).
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The genus Sporobolus comprises about 200 species of cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses.
- The plants of the genus Sporobolus can be recognized by their single-flowered spikelets arranged in a panicle.
- In tropical Africa the genus Sporobolus includes about 70 species, among them are many perennial grasses of wide ecological range.
- Prairie dropseed is a perennial grass native to North America in the genus Sporobolus.
- Several species in the genus Sporobolus have become weeds of major importance in crops of wheat, rice and maize.