Taxon: Setaria verticillata (L.) P. Beauv.

Common names:

• bristle pigeon grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• bristly foxtail   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• bur bristle grass   (Source: R. P. Ellis, p.c.) – English
  
• bur grass   (Source: Blumea 39:383. 1994) – English
  
• rough bristle grass   (Source: Blumea 39:383. 1994) – English
  
• whorled pigeon grass   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• sträv kavelhirs   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide F USSR)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain; Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czech Republic; Germany; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Hungary; Netherlands; Slovakia
  East Europe: Belarus
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil - Sao Paulo
  Western South America: Peru
  Southern South America: Chile

• exact native & naturalized range uncertain owing to confusion with other taxa

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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Catasús Guerra, L. J. 2002. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, II. Cavanillesia Altera 3:1–163.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Danin, A. & H. Scholz. 1997. On the occurrence of two taxa of the Setaria verticillata complex in Israel and the Sinai. Willdenowia 27:177–179.
• Ellis, R. P. 1997. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Development Consortium. Invasive species compendium (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1994. Miscellaneous notes on southeast Asian Gramineae: 9. Setaria and Paspalidium. Blumea 39:382.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 1994. Catalogo de la familia Poaceae en la Republica Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47.
• Zuloaga, F. O. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): III. Subfamilies Panicoideae, Aristidoideae, Arundinoideae, and Danthonioideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 46:590.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Setaria verticillata.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Setaria verticillata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Panicum verticillatum L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Setaria verticillata (L.) P. Beauv.:

• 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
• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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