Sudan grass

Sudan grass

Taxobox
name = Sudan grass



image_caption = Sorghum durra
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
subclassis = Liliidae
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
subfamilia = Panicoideae
genus = "Sorghum"
species = "S. vulgare"
subspecies = "S. vulgare var. sudanense"
trinomial = "Sorghum vulgare var. sudanense"
trinomial_authority = Hitchc.

Sudan grass, "Sorghum vulgare var. sudanense", is a species of grasses raised for grain, native to tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Africa. The plant is cultivated in Southern Europe, South America, Central America, North America and Southern Asia, for a forage or cover crop.


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