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Setaria pumila
Also called Yellow Bristle Grass, Yellow Bristlegrass, Pigeon Grass, Cattail Grass, Pale Pigeon Grass
Yellow foxtail is an annual grass, native to Europe and now a common weed worldwide in lawns, roadsides and fields. It is grown only as a weed, not cultivated as an ornamental.
Setaria pumila is a species of grass known by many common names, including yellow foxtail, yellow bristle-grass, pigeon grass, and cattail grass. It is native to Europe, but it is known throughout the world as a common weed. It grows in lawns, sidewalks, roadsides, cultivated fields, and many other places. This annual grass grows 20 centimetres (8 inches) to well over 1 metre (1 yard) in height, its mostly hairless stems ranging from green to purple-tinged in color. The leaf blades are sparsely to barely covered in hair, twisting, and up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) long. The inflorescence is a stiff, cylindrical bundle of spikelets 2 to 15 centimetres (3⁄4 to 6 inches) long with short, blunt bristles. The panicle may appear yellow or yellow-tinged.
The species is often mistaken for S. viridis, but can be told apart by the presence (in the case of S.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Setaria pumila by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
