*Echinochloa esculenta
Spikelets ± strongly purplish to blackish brown (rarely pallid when bleached), shortly acute, 3–4 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide. Fruit brownish. Culms up to 1 m high. Widespread. Cultivated. Roadsides. Introd. from E. Asia. Fl. summer. Japanese Millet or Ankee Millet