| Scientific Name: | Echinochloa crus-galli |
| Common Name: | barnyard grass |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Poales (grass-like), Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | |
| Leaves: | Grass-like, Alternate, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Green, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Annual grass with circular mat habit when mowed; leaf vernation rolled, blades flat, thick midrib, flat, and narrow at base, +/- hairs along margins, auricles absent; ligule absent; sheath and culm compressed, flattened, purplish near base; rhizomes absent. | |