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Setaria scheelei
Also called Southwestern Bristle Grass
Setaria scheelei, the southwestern bristlegrass is a species of the true grasses native to drier, hotter parts of the Southwestern United States and Mexico.
Southwestern bristlegrass is mostly a Mexican species. In the USA it is restricted to the hotter, drier southern half of Texas and southern Arizona. In Mexico it is native in hot, dry areas from the US border south to the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, but missing in the Baja California peninsula.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Setaria scheelei 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.
