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Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Test Your Knowledge - Sweet Corn

Grassy weed with arching or nodding panicle

You found this grassy weed in your sweet corn field. Its seeds catch your eye which are varying in colour from white through shades of yellow, orange, and brown to black. Which annual grass is this?

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This is Proso millet. Fall panicum is distinguished from Proso millet by its hairless upper leaf sheaths and blades and its smaller spikelets and seeds that are only grey-brown in colour.

Fall Panicum Proso Millet seeds

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