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Itchgrass–Stop the Trains?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

David W. Hall and
David T. Patterson
David W. Hall
Affiliation:
Univ. Fla., Gainesville, 32611
David T. Patterson
Affiliation:
Univ. Fla., Gainesville, 32611
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Itchgrass [Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton ♯ ROOEX] is a large aggressive annual in the Poaceae. This weedy grass is native to Southeast Asia. It now occurs also in tropical and subtropical areas of Australia and Africa and has been introduced into the West Indies and North, Central, and South America. It apparently was introduced into the United States at Miami, Fla. and Lafayette, La. in the early 1900s (1, 6, 7).

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Weed Alert
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1992, pp. 239 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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