Sorghum Moench

Native to:

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Republic, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, Cook Is., Cyprus, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Hainan, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Madeira, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Somalia, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Albania, Amur, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Bulgaria, California, Cayman Is., Central European Russia, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Desventurados Is., District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, France, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kansas, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Kriti, Krym, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, NW. Balkan Pen., Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Pitcairn Is., Portugal, Primorye, Puerto Rico, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Samoa, Sardegna, Sicilia, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, St.Helena, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tennessee, Texas, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vermont, Virginia, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Washington, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yemen

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• (2020). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.29.226753. epublication.
• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
• Menjívar Cruz, J.E., R.M. Baldini, G. Davidse & P.M. Peterson (2021). El Salvador grasses: An updated catalogue and nomenclator. Phytoneuron 2021-22: 1-131.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• F.T.A. 9: 104 (1917)
• Meth. 207 (1794)
• Snowden in J. Linn. Soc. 55: 191 (1955), nom. cons.

Flora Zambesiaca

• C.E. Hubbard in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 34: t. 3364 (1938).
• Celarier in Cytologia 23: 395–418 (1959).
• Garber in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 23: 283–361 (1950).
• Ivanyukovich & Doronina in Trudy Prikl. Bot. 69: 18–27 (1980).
• Methodus: 207 (1794) nom. conserv.
• Setshogo in Kirkia 17: 138 (2001).
• Snowden in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 55: 191–260 (1955).

Flora of Somalia

• Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• C.E. Hubbard in Hook., Ic. Pl. 34, fig. 3364 (1938)
• Celarier in Cytologia 23: 395–418 (1959), nom. conserv.
• Garber in Univ. California Publ. Bot. 23: 283–361 (1950)
• Meth.: 207 (1794)
• Snowden in J.L.S. 55: 191 (1955)