Taxon: Pennisetum setaceum (Forssk.) Chiov.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*, HI*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• fountain grass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• tender fountain grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• pronkgras   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• afrikanisches Lampenputzergras   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• einjähriges Lampenputzergras   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• fjäderborstgräs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Ruizia 13:408; F NAmer; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; F NAmer; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia; Somalia; Sudan
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania
  South Tropical Africa: Zambia; Zimbabwe
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Western Asia: Egypt - Sinai; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sicily

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: Namibia; South Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sardinia
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.], California [s.], Nevada [s.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chemisquy, M. A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 106:129. [= Cenchrus setaceus (Forssk.) Morrone].
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Ghazanfar, S. A. 1992. An annotated catalogue of the vascular plants of Oman. Scripta Botanica Belgica 2.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Mejía-Saulés, M. T. & P. Dávila A. 1992. Gramíneas Útiles de México. Cuad. Inst. Biol. 16.
• Meyer, J. Y. 2004. Threat of invasive alien plants to native flora and forest vegetation of eastern Polynesia. Pacific Sci. 58:357–375.
• Meyer, M. H. 2012. Chapter 3. Ornamental grasses in the United States. Hort. Rev. 39:121–152.
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Thulin, M., ed. 1993–. Flora of Somalia.
• Tovar, Ó. 1993. Las Gramíneas (Poaceae) del Perú. Ruizia 13:408.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pennisetum setaceum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pennisetum setaceum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pennisetum setaceum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Cenchrus asperifolius Desf.
  
• (≡) Cenchrus setaceus (Forssk.) Morrone
  
• (=) Pennisetum asperifolium auct.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Pennisetum rueppelianum hort. ex Mez
  
• (=) Pennisetum ruppelii Steud.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Pennisetum setaceum (Forssk.) Chiov.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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