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  • COMMON NAME: great millet
  • ARABIC: دهره
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.
  • SYNONYMS: S. vulgare, Andropogon sorghum
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Ajman , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/sorghum_bicolor.htm
Annual grass. Culms stout, smooth, glabrous, often sweet when chewed, 1-4 meter high. Leaf-blades linear-acuminate, flat, 15-50 cm long, 2-6 cm broad. Panicle variable in size and shape, lose or dense, erect or nodding. Sessile spikelets ovate to round or subglobose, 3-5 mm long, 2-3 mm broad; glumes greenish-white, creamy buff, reddish-brown or black, glabrous or with soft hairs. Awn of lemma 4-15 mm long. Grains obovoid. Flowering from July to November.
Sandy soil, roadsides and cultivated.
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