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Local name: জয়না
English name: Joyna, Grasslike fimbry, Hoorahgrass
Scientific name: Fimbristylis miliacea
Family: Cyperaceae
An annual sedge with slender stems, usually 10–50 cm tall, tufted and grass-like in appearance.
Commonly found in wet, marshy areas, paddy fields, ditches, and lowlands; thrives in waterlogged conditions.
Primarily grows during the rainy season or in irrigated fields.
Frequently associated with rice and other wetland crops.
Reproduces through seeds and sometimes vegetatively from rootstocks.
Linear, narrow, flat, or slightly folded, 10–20 cm long with smooth margins.
Erect, slender, triangular, and smooth.
Umbel-like clusters of spikelets, usually brownish or reddish-brown, located at the tips of stems.
Fibrous root system.
Proper water management, hand weeding during the early stages of crop growth. Application of pre-emergence and post-emergence herbicides like butachlor or cyhalofop-butyl. Combining manual weeding with periodic herbicide use and ensuring proper field drainage to suppress growth.