| Author | (L.) T.Q. Nguyen | |
| Distribution | Mostly the lower Piedmont and Sandhills; scattered elsewhere. Planted for roadside erosion control and expected elsewhere.
Native of tropical Africa and Asia; in N.A. VA to southern IL and OK, south to FL and TX. | |
| Abundance | Uncommon to infrequent. | |
| Habitat | Weed in crop fields (mostly corn), roadsides, fields, weed in campus plantings, waste ground. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting July-October. | |
| Identification | Browntop Millet is annual, with spreading stems that usually root at nodes. The flowering stems (culms) turn rather erect and produce a terminal inflorescence. Inflorescence branches are slender, and look superficially like those of Paspalum, in that the spikelets grow in pairs along each side of the rachis. However, the shape of the spikelets is ovate and pointed, not hemispherical and blunt. It looks similar to U. platyphylla, but that species has spikelets arranged singly on each side of the rachis. | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Species in the genus Urochloa have in the past been placed in Brachiaria and Panicum. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
