Taxon: Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult. subsp. pallidefusca (Schumach.) B. K. Simon

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS (as Setaria pallidefusca).

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:

FL(as Setaria pallidefusca)*, MA(as Setaria pallidefusca)*, NC(as Setaria pallidefusca)*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See other conspecific taxa:

• Setaria pumila (22 accessions)
• Setaria pumila subsp. pumila (1 accessions)

Common names:

• cattail grass   (Source: USDA/APHIS [as S. pallide-fusca]) – English
  
• Queensland pidgeon grass   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• ko-tsubu-kin-enokoro   (Source: F JapanOhwi [as S. pallide-fusca]) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  United States
• worldwide weed, especially in tropics & subtropics

      Other:

• probable origin paleotropics

References:

• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi) [= S. pallide-fusca].
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS) [as S. pallide-fusca].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Veldkamp, J. F. 1994. Miscellaneous notes on southeast Asian Gramineae: 9. Setaria and Paspalidium. Blumea 39:380. [= S. parviflora (Poir.) Kerguelen].

Synonyms:

• (≡) Panicum pallidefuscum Schumach. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Setaria pallidefusca (Schumach.) Stapf & C. E. Hubb.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other databases for Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult. subsp. pallidefusca (Schumach.) B. K. Simon:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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?418247 (09 February 2010)

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