HEGARI FORAGE SORGHUM
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Summary
Hegari is a full-season, open pollinated, white-seeded sorghum. Hegari is a dual purpose used widely for grain and forage, and is also popular for game birds. Hegari produces very juicy, sweet stalks and leaves that are palatable, very drought tolerant, and can handle poorer soil quality or types.
Plant Characteristics
Taxonomy
Zone
- Regional Growing Zone
- 1 - Northwest Coastal, 2 - California Coastal, 3 - Southern Mountain, 4 - Mountain, 5 - Midwest, 6 - Northeast Lakes, 7 - Great Lakes South, 8 - Appalacia, 9 - Southeast, 10 - South Florida, 11 - South Texas, 12 - Southwest
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Temperature Zone
- Warm, Cool, Transitional
Plant Characteristics
- Height
- 36" - 60"
- Maturity
- 120 Days to mid bloom
Plant Information
- Planting Season
- Summer
- Plant Depth
- 1" - 1.5"
- Minimum Soil Temp for Germination
- 62° F
- Establishment
- Easy
Seed Information
- Seeds Per Pound
- 14,000
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Subkingdom
- Tracheobionta
- Super Division
- Spermatophyta
- Division
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- LILIOPSIDA
- Subclass
- COMMELINIDAE
- Order
- CYPERALES
- Family
- POACEAE
- Genus
- SORGHUM
- Species
- SORGHUM BICOLOR