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Guinea grass

Panicum maximum (syn. Urochloa maxima) -- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants

Panicum maximum (syn. Urochloa maxima)

Non-Native to Florida


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Download a page (PDF 174 KB) from Identification and Biology of Nonnative Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas – Second Edition, by K.A. Langeland, H.M. Cherry, et al. University of Florida-IFAS Pub SP 257. 2008.

 

    Here is another large non-native grass growing in Florida. Guinea grass is native to Africa and blooms year round. It is common in fields, groves, roadsides and other disturbed sites from the peninsula west to the central panhandle of Florida and Escambia county (Wunderlin, 2003). It looks very similar to another invasive plant, Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense).

    Guinea grass may be found from Florida and Georgia to California and Hawaii (Kartesz, 1999). (Kartesz refers to this plant as Urochloa maxima.)

    See the UF/IFAS Assessment, which lists plants according to their invasive status in Florida.

    guinea grass View the herbarium specimen image of the University of Florida Herbarium Digital Imaging Projects.