The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Setaria parviflora
Also called Knotroot Foxtail, Marsh Brittlegrass, Knotroot Bristle Grass, Slender Pigeon Grass, Yellow Bristle Grass, Queensland Pigeon Grass, Bristly Foxtail
Setaria parviflora is a species of grass known by the common names marsh bristlegrass, knotroot bristle-grass, bristly foxtail and yellow bristlegrass. It is native to North America, including Mexico and the United States from California to the East Coast, Central America and the West Indies, and South America.
This grass is a perennial with small, knotty rhizomes. It produces stems 30 centimeters to well over one meter tall. The leaf blades are up to 25 centimeters long and under a centimeter wide. The leaves are whitish-green. The inflorescence is a compact, spikelike panicle up to 8 or 10 centimeters long. Surrounding each spikelet are up to 12 yellow or purple bristles. The bristles stay on the stalk after the seeds drop away.
Setaria brigalow · Watercrown grass · East Indian bristlegrass · Setaria basiclada · Setaria cernua · Diels Pigeon Grass · Spreading Panicgrass · Japanese bristlegrass · Sago Grass · Foxtail millet · Streambed bristlegrass · Bigleaf bristlegrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Setaria parviflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
