Plants Profile for Sorghum halepense (Johnsongrass)

General Information
Symbol:	SOHA
Group:	Monocot
Family:	Poaceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Graminoid
Native Status:	CAN I HI I L48 I PB I PR I
Characteristics
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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©James Henson. Provided by USDA NRCS National Plant Data Center (NPDC). United States, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, Baton Rouge, Southern University. July 25, 2002. Usage Requirements.

©Larry Allain. USGS National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC). Usage Requirements.

©Lowell Urbatsch. Louisiana State University. Usage Requirements.

Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. Brazil, Piracicaba. Usage Requirements.

©Ted Bodner. James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller. 2005. Forest plants of the southeast and their wildlife uses. University of Georgia Press., Athens. Provided by University of Georgia Press. Scanned by Forestry Images. Usage Requirements.

©James H. Miller. James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller. 2005. Forest plants of the southeast and their wildlife uses. University of Georgia Press., Athens. Provided by University of Georgia Press. Scanned by Forestry Images. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 121. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
HOHA	Holcus halepensis L.
SOMI10	Sorghum miliaceum (Roxb.) Snowden

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Cyperales
Family	Poaceae ⁄ Gramineae – Grass family
Genus	Sorghum Moench – sorghum
Species	Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. – Johnsongrass

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Arkansas johnsongrass Noxious weed
California johnsongrass C list (noxious weeds)
Colorado johnsongrass C list (noxious weeds)
Delaware johnsongrass Noxious weed
Idaho johnsongrass Noxious weed
Illinois johnsongrass Noxious weed
Indiana johnsongrass Noxious weed
Kansas johnsongrass Noxious weed
Kentucky johnsongrass Noxious weed
Maryland johnsongrass Noxious weed
Missouri johnsongrass Noxious weed
Nevada johnsongrass Noxious weed
Ohio johnsongrass Prohibited noxious weed
Oregon johnsongrass "B" designated weed johnsongrass Quarantine
Pennsylvania johnsongrass Noxious weed
South Dakota johnsongrass Regulated non-native plant species
Utah johnsongrass Noxious weed
Washington johnsongrass Class A noxious weed johnsongrass Noxious weed seed and plant quarantine
West Virginia johnsongrass Noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information
Sorghum halepense Johnsongrass aleppo milletgrass herbe de Cuba sorgho d'Alep sorgo de alepo zacate Johnson This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
KY	Haragan, P.D.. 1991. Weeds of Kentucky and adjacent states: a field guide. The University Press of Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky.
N'EAST	Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal,and J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York.
NE&GP	Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe,and M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska.
SEEPPC	Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council. 1996. Invasive exotic pest plants in Tennessee (19 October 1999). Research Committee of the Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council. Tennessee.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

Interpreting Wetland Status

Top Level Regions
Caribbean	FAC
Hawaii	FACU

North America
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	FACU
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	FACU
Great Plains	FACU
Midwest	FACU
Northcentral & Northeast	FACU
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU