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  • noun Alternative spelling of Johnson grass.

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Examples

  • It is hoped the grain qualities of sorghum can be united with the rhizomatous habit of johnsongrass to create a powerful new perennial cereal.

    10. Sorghum: Specialty Types 1996

  • American researchers are currently performing experimental crosses between sorghum and johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense), a perennial forage that has already introgressed with sorghum to become a pernicious weed in the United States.

    10. Sorghum: Specialty Types 1996

  • When farmers were migrating westward out of the Carolinas 150 years ago because the scourge of johnsongrass had made cotton production unprofitable, they found in the gently rolling prairie lands of east central Mississippi a virtually blank slate.

    Delta Farm Press RSS Feed 2009

  • Pettis County Johnsongrass Control Coordinator Mark Edwards said the johnsongrass control is managing the troublesome weed.

    Sedalia Democrat : News 2009

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