GrassCultivatedAnnual

Sorghum bicolor (L.)Moench

Jawar

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Description

Sorghum bicolor is a large annual cereal grass, usually 1–4 m tall, with erect solid culms. Stems are thick, juicy, and contain abundant pith. Nodes are prominent and internodes are cylindrical. Leaves are large, linear-lanceolate, and broad, usually 30–100 cm long and 2–10 cm wide. Leaf blades are flat with rough margins. Leaf sheaths surround the stem, and ligules are membranous. The inflorescence is a large terminal panicle, usually compact or spreading depending on variety. Spikelets occur in pairs; one fertile and one sterile. Many cultivated varieties have prominent awns. The fruit is a grain (caryopsis), commonly white, red, brown, or black.

Phenology

Flowering

Fruiting

Flowering: Summer

Ethnobotany & Uses

Food Importance

Used for Flour, Bread, Traditional foods, Animal Feed. Used as Fodder, Silage.

Industrial Importance

Used for Bioethanol, Syrup production, Biomass.

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Where it grows on campus

This species is on the campus floristic list but was not pinned during the GPS mapping survey, so it has no map records yet.

Taxonomic Notes

Belongs to tribe Andropogoneae.