Yellow Fx-tail Grass
Setaria pumila
Also known as Yellow bristlegrass
About Yellow Fx-tail Grass
Setaria pumila is a species of grass known by many common names, including yellow foxtail, yellow bristle-grass, pigeon grass, and cattail grass. It is native to Europe, but it is known throughout the world as a common weed. It grows in lawns, sidewalks, roadsides, cultivated fields, and many other places. This annual grass grows 20 centimetres (8 inches) to well over 1 metre (1 yard) in height, its mostly hairless stems ranging from green to purple-tinged in color. The leaf blades are hairless on the upper surfaces, twisting, and up to 30 centimetres (12 inches) long. The inflorescence is a stiff, cylindrical bundle of spikelets 2 to 15 centimetres (3⁄4 to 6 inches) long with short, blunt bristles.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Setaria pumila
- Genus
- Setaria
- Family
- POACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Degraded moist deciduous forests, grasslands and wasteland
- Distribution
- India, Pakistan, tropical and warm temperate regions of the old world; introduced to North America
- Flowering & fruiting
- July-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Malayalam
- കമ്പിളിപ്പുല്ല്
Poaceae
Grass family
Yellow Fx-tail Grass belongs to the Poaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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