Part 7 - UNC Herbarium
Part 7 - UNC Herbarium
Part 7 - UNC Herbarium
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POACEAE 917<br />
* Setaria faberi R.A.W. Herrmann, Nodding Foxtail Grass, Giant Foxtail-grass. Mt, Pd, Cp (GA, NC, SC, VA): disturbed<br />
areas; uncommon, native of China. [= RAB, C, FNA, G, K, W; = S. faberii – F, HC, Z, orthographic variant]<br />
Setaria geminata (Forsskål) Veldkamp var. paludivaga (A.S. Hitchcock & Chase) R.D. Webster, Alligator Grass,<br />
Paspalidium. Cp (GA, SC): in shallow water; rare. December. S. SC south to FL, west to TX; also in Central and South<br />
America. This taxon is sometimes considered an introduction from the Old World, but its occurrence in undisturbed wetlands<br />
remote from extensive human activity suggests that it is native. Webster (1995) has merged Paspalidium into Setaria. [= Y; =<br />
Panicum paludivagum A.S. Hitchcock & Chase – RAB, HC, S; < Paspalidium geminatum – FNA, GW, X; = Paspalidium<br />
geminatum (Forsskål) Stapf var. paludivagum (A.S. Hitchcock & Chase) Gould – K; = Paspalidium paludivagum (A.S.<br />
Hitchcock & Chase) Parodi]<br />
* Setaria italica (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois, Foxtail-millet, Italian-millet. Pd (GA, NC, SC, VA), Cp, Mt (VA):<br />
disturbed areas, rare, native of Eurasia. Probably derived via cultivation from S. viridis, and cultivated as a food crop in China<br />
since at least 6000 BP and later in Europe (Hancock 2004). [= RAB, C, F, FNA, G, HC, K, W, Z; = Chaetochloa italica<br />
(Linnaeus) Lamson-Scribner – S]<br />
Setaria macrosperma (Lamson-Scribner & Merrill) K. Schumann, Coral Bristlegrass. Cp (GA, SC): hammocks and<br />
maritime forests, also disturbed areas; rare. SC south to FL; Bahamas, Mexico. [= RAB, FNA, HC, K, Z; = Chaetochloa<br />
macrosperma Lamson-Scribner & Merrill – S]<br />
Setaria magna Grisebach, Saltmarsh Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass. Cp (GA, NC, SC, VA), Pd* (GA*): interdune<br />
swales, near-coastal marshes; uncommon. NJ south to s. FL, west to e. TX; disjunct inland in GA, AR, LA, TX, and NM; West<br />
Indies, Bermuda, Costa Rica. [= RAB, C, F, FNA, G, HC, K, Z; = Chaetochloa magna (Grisebach) Lamson-Scribner – S]<br />
Setaria parviflora (Poiret) Kerguélen, Knotroot Bristlegrass, Perennial Foxtail-grass. Cp, Pd, Mt (GA, NC, SC, VA):<br />
marshes, ditches, moist disturbed areas; common. MA to IA south to s. FL and s. TX, south through Mexico to Central America;<br />
CA and NV; West Indies. Gandhi & Barkworth (2003) provide a detailed discussion of the reasons for the nomenclatural<br />
change. [= FNA, K, Z; = S. geniculata Palisot de Beauvois – RAB, C, F, G, HC, W; = Chaetochloa geniculata (Palisot de<br />
Beauvois) Millspaugh & Chase – S]<br />
* Setaria pumila (Poiret) Roemer & Schultes ssp. pumila, Yellow Foxtail. Mt, Pd, Cp (GA, NC, SC, VA): disturbed areas,<br />
lawns, fields; common, native of Europe. [= FNA; = Setaria glauca (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois – RAB, C, F, G, W,<br />
misapplied; >< Setaria lutescens (Weigel) Hubb. – HC, misapplied; >< S. pumila ssp. pallidifusca – K, treatment apparently<br />
garbled; = Chaetochloa lutescens (Weigel) Stuntz – S]<br />
* Setaria verticillata (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois, Hooked Bristlegrass. Mt (VA): disturbed areas; uncommon, introduced<br />
from Europe. [= FNA, G, K; = S. verticillata var. verticillata – C, F, HC; = Chaetochloa verticillata (Linnaeus) Lamson-<br />
Scribner – S; < S. verticillata – Z]<br />
* Setaria viridis (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois var. viridis. Cp, Pd, Mt (GA, NC, SC, VA): fields, disturbed areas; common,<br />
introduced from Eurasia. [= C, FNA, K, Z; < S. viridis – RAB, HC, W; > S. viridis var. viridis – F, G; > S. viridis var.<br />
weinmannii (Roemer & J.A. Schultes) Bolbás – F; > S. viridis var. breviseta (Doell) A.S. Hitchcock – G; = Chaetochloa viridis<br />
(Linnaeus) Lamson-Scribner – S]<br />
Setaria adhaerans (Forsskål) Chiovenda. Distributed widely throughout the tropics and subtropics, in North America from<br />
s. AL west to CA (perhaps only adventive in portions of that distribution). [= FNA, K, Z] {synonymy incomplete}<br />
Setaria geminata (Forsskål) Veldkamp var. geminata. AL, FL. [= Y; < Paspalidium geminatum – FNA, GW, X; =<br />
Panicum geminatum Forsskål – HC, S; = Paspalidium geminatum (Forsskål) Stapf var. geminatum – K]<br />
* Setaria verticilliformis Dunart. is reported for NJ, PA, MD, and AL (FNA 2003a, Kartesz 1999). [= FNA, K; = S.<br />
verticillata (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois var. ambigua (Guss.) Parlatore – C, F, HC; = S. viridis (Linnaeus) Palisot de<br />
Beauvois var. ambigua (Guss.) Coss. & Durieu – G; = Chaetochloa ambigua Guss. – S; < S. verticillata – Z]<br />
* Setaria viridis (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois var. major (Gaudin) Pospichal, Giant Green Foxtail, is reported as introduced<br />
in TN, MD, and PA (Kartesz 1999). [= C, FNA, G, K, Z; < S. viridis – RAB, HC]<br />
Sorghastrum Nash (Indiangrass)<br />
A genus of about 18-20 species, of tropical and subtropical America and Africa, rarely extending into temperate areas.<br />
References: Hall (1982)=Z; Dávila Aranda & Hatch in FNA (2003a). Key adapted from Z.<br />
1 Awns 10-22 (-30) mm long, once-geniculate; plants rhizomatous; surfaces of the glumes tan to slightly brown basally; ligule<br />
3-10 mm long, prominently auricled............................................................................................................................ S. nutans<br />
1 Awns 16-46 mm long, twice-geniculate; plants cespitose; surfaces of the glumes brown; ligule 1-5 mm long, truncate.<br />
2 Axis of the panicle straight, erect, the branchlets appressed to ascending, the spikelets drooping-secund; spikelets 0.8-<br />
1.2 mm wide ...................................................................................................................................................S. secundum<br />
2 Axis of the panicle arching, usually strongly so, the branchlets ascending to spreading, the spikelets not droopingsecund;<br />
spikelets 1.1-1.8 mm wide.<br />
3 Axis of the panicle straight, with the branches distributed no more than 180 degrees around the axis (as viewed<br />
from above)................................................................................................................................ [S. apalachicolense]<br />
3 Axis of the panicle arching, with the branchlets distributed through 360 degrees around the axis (as viewed from<br />
above)...........................................................................................................................................................S. elliottii