About Mission Grass
Setaria parviflora is a species of grass known by the common names marsh bristlegrass, knotroot bristle-grass, bristly foxtail and yellow bristlegrass. It is native to North America, including Mexico and the United States from California to the East Coast, Central America and the West Indies, and South America. This grass is a perennial with small, knotty rhizomes. It produces stems 30 centimeters to well over one meter tall. The leaf blades are up to 25 centimeters long and under a centimeter wide. The leaves are whitish-green. The inflorescence is a compact, spikelike panicle up to 8 or 10 centimeters long. Surrounding each spikelet are up to 12 yellow or purple bristles. The bristles stay on the stalk after the seeds drop away.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Pennisetum polystachion
- Genus
- Pennisetum
- Family
- POACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded moist deciduous forests and waste places
- Distribution
- Paleotropics
- Flowering & fruiting
- April-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Kannada
- ಸಣ್ಣಕಡ್ಡಿ Sanna kaddi, ನೇಪಿಯರ್ ಹುಲ್ಲು Napier hullu
Poaceae
Grass family
Mission Grass belongs to the Poaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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