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§1 Plant
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench
vernacular sorghum — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Sorghum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 268 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- High
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 47 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 90 min.
- Precipitation
- 18–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- High
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- Brown
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Moderate
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 27,280
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 268 counties across 29 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Alachua 12001
- Brevard 12009
- Citrus 12017
- Collier 12021
- Escambia 12033
- Franklin 12037
- Gadsden 12039
- Hendry 12051
- Hernando 12053
- Highlands 12055
- Hillsborough 12057
- Holmes 12059
- Jackson 12063
- Lake 12069
- Lee 12071
- Leon 12073
- Levy 12075
- Liberty 12077
- Marion 12083
- Miami-Dade 12086
- Okaloosa 12091
- Orange 12095
- Palm Beach 12099
- Pasco 12101
- Santa Rosa 12113
- Sarasota 12115
- Walton 12131
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 46 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Bond 17005
- Boone 17007
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- Douglas 17041
- DuPage 17043
- Edgar 17045
- Fulton 17057
- Gallatin 17059
- Greene 17061
- Grundy 17063
- Hamilton 17065
- Hancock 17067
- Hardin 17069
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Marion 17121
- Mason 17125
- Massac 17127
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Mercer 17131
- Ogle 17141
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pope 17151
- Pulaski 17153
- Randolph 17157
- Scott 17171
- Shelby 17173
- Wabash 17185
- Wayne 17191
- Will 17197
Indiana view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Anderson 21005
- Ballard 21007
- Bourbon 21017
- Bullitt 21029
- Campbell 21037
- Carlisle 21039
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Garrard 21079
- Hardin 21093
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Lyon 21143
- Mercer 21167
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nelson 21179
- Robertson 21201
- Scott 21209
- Trigg 21221
- Woodford 21239
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Avoyelles 22009
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- De Soto 22031
- East Carroll 22035
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Vermilion 22113
- Vernon 22115
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 5 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Columbia 42037
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Union 42119
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SOBI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705181 ↗Record version
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