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:

• pigeon grass   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• yellow bristle-grass   (Source: BSBI )
  
• yellow foxtail   (Source: F NAmer )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• worldwide weed, including United States, possibly native in paleotropics

References:

• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• 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. (F Ceylon)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993–. Flora of Victoria. (F Victoria)
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSWales)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [= S. glauca (L.) P. Beauv.].
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. (WorldWeeds)
• Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. 1986. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4. (F SAust)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Soerjani, M. et al. 1987. Weeds of rice in Indonesia. 478. [= S. pallide-fusca (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.].
• Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland. (F SE Queensl)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1994. Miscellaneous notes on southeast Asian Gramineae: 9. Setaria and Paspalidium. Blumea 39:381.
• Zon, A. P. M. van der. 1992. Graminées du Cameroun. (Grass Camer)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Setaria pumila.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Setaria pumila. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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 databases 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
• 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
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds or fruits: 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?317165 (21 November 2009)

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