Taxon: Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult.

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:

MA*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Setaria pumila subsp. pallidefusca (no accessions)
• Setaria pumila subsp. pumila (1 accessions)

Common names:

• cattail grass   (Source: USDA/APHIS [as S. pallide-fusca]) – English   [Setaria pumila subsp. pallidefusca]
  
• pale pigeon grass   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English   [Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  
• pigeon grass   (Source: Blumea 39:381. 1994) – English   [Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  
• pigeon grass   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• Queensland pigeon grass   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English   [Setaria pumila subsp. pallidefusca]
  
• yellow bristle grass   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• yellow bristle grass   (Source: Blumea 39:381. 1994) – English   [Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  
• yellow foxtail   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• yellow foxtail   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  
• sétaire glauque   (Source: WorldWeeds [as S. glauca]) – French   [Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  
• ko-tsubu-kin-enokoro   (Source: F JapanOhwi [as S. pallide-fusca]) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Setaria pumila subsp. pallidefusca]
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide WorldWeeds 763. 1997)
  
• Harmful organism host: crop pests   (fide WorldWeeds 763. 1997)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; F Ceylon)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon
  West Tropical Africa: Burkina Faso; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Botswana; Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa; Swaziland
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Oman; Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Indochina
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Sweden
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Hungary
  East Europe: Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam; Micronesia; Northern Mariana Islands
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia; Norfolk Island
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway
  Middle Europe: Belgium; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia; Pitcairn
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Samoa; Tonga
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Dominica; Hispaniola; Jamaica; Puerto Rico
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador
  Southern South America: Chile; Paraguay - Alto Paraguay

References:

• Delivering alien invasive species inventories for Europe (DAISIE) (on-line resource).
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Clayton, W. D. 1979. Notes on Setaria (Gramineae). Kew Bull. 33:501–509.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• 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.
• Figueiredo, E. & G. F. Smith. 2008. Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993–. Flora of Victoria.
• 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.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. [= S. glauca (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
• Soerjani, M. et al., eds. 1987. Weeds of rice in Indonesia. [= S. pallide-fusca (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.].
• Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of Georgia, Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. Invasive.org: invasive and exotic species of North America (on-line resource).
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1994. Miscellaneous notes on southeast Asian Gramineae: 9. Setaria and Paspalidium. Blumea 39:381.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:584.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Setaria pumila.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Setaria pumila.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Setaria pumila.

Synonyms:

• Chaetochloa lutescens Stuntz [= Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• "Panicum lutescens Weigel, nom. inval." [= Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Panicum pallidefuscum Schumach. [≡ Setaria pumila subsp. pallidefusca]
  
• Panicum pumilum Poir. [≡ Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  
• Setaria glauca auct. [= Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Setaria lutescens (Stuntz) F. T. Hubb. [= Setaria pumila subsp. pumila]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Setaria pallidefusca (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb. [≡ Setaria pumila subsp. pallidefusca]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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.
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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