Echinochloa crusgalli
Family : Poaceae
Cockspur
4/119 : Alien
Like many other alien grasses, mainly to the south of Albert Dock. The records in [TA 13 32] and [TA 09 36] are for a few plants that grew from discarded bird-seed.

J F Robinson 1902: With other alien grasses "Waste ground near St Andrew's Dock, Hull, where sweepings of dock sheds and railway trucks and much other refuse are thrown out."

Herbarium material: HLU : Cottingham 1944 {R Good}.

R Middleton 2000

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