Sorghum plumosum

Description

“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: leaves Sorghum plumosum is a species of grass that was first described by Robert Brown , and was given its current name by Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot de Beauvois . Sorghum plumosum is included in the genus durrs , and the family grass Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae. Seventeen of the 25 species are native to Australia, with the range of some extending to Africa, Asia, Mesoamerica, and certain islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species is grown for grain, while many others are used as fodder plants, either cultivated in warm climates worldwide or naturalized, in pasture lands. Sorghum is in the subfamily Panicoideae and the tribe Andropogoneae (the tribe of big bluestem and sugarcane).