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§1 Plant
Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.
vernacular foxtail millet — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Setaria
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 361 counties across 32 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 52 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 25–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.3–6.9
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- White
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Summer
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Fall
- Seed ends
- Winter
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 216,600
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Medium
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 361 counties across 32 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 8 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Alexander 17003
- Bond 17005
- Boone 17007
- Cass 17017
- Champaign 17019
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Fulton 17057
- Grundy 17063
- Henry 17073
- Iroquois 17075
- Jackson 17077
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Macon 17115
- Madison 17119
- Mason 17125
- McHenry 17111
- Menard 17129
- Morgan 17137
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pope 17151
- Randolph 17157
- Sangamon 17167
- Wabash 17185
- Washington 17189
- Will 17197
- Williamson 17199
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 24 I ▾
- Boone 18011
- Crawford 18025
- Daviess 18027
- Fayette 18041
- Gibson 18051
- Greene 18055
- Harrison 18061
- Henry 18065
- Howard 18067
- Jasper 18073
- Jefferson 18077
- Knox 18083
- Kosciusko 18085
- Lake 18089
- Lawrence 18093
- Monroe 18105
- Montgomery 18107
- Newton 18111
- Owen 18119
- Putnam 18133
- St. Joseph 18141
- Steuben 18151
- Tippecanoe 18157
- Wabash 18169
Iowa view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Barber 20007
- Brown 20013
- Cloud 20029
- Cowley 20035
- Dickinson 20041
- Doniphan 20043
- Douglas 20045
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Hodgeman 20083
- Jackson 20085
- Lyon 20111
- McPherson 20113
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Neosho 20133
- Osborne 20141
- Pottawatomie 20149
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Riley 20161
- Saline 20169
- Scott 20171
- Sedgwick 20173
- Shawnee 20177
- Sheridan 20179
- Wabaunsee 20197
- Washington 20201
- Wichita 20203
- Wyandotte 20209
Kentucky view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Boone 29019
- Callaway 29027
- Cedar 29039
- Christian 29043
- Clark 29045
- Crawford 29055
- Dallas 29059
- Gasconade 29073
- Greene 29077
- Hickory 29085
- Iron 29093
- Jackson 29095
- Jasper 29097
- Lafayette 29107
- Madison 29123
- Maries 29125
- Marion 29127
- Miller 29131
- Phelps 29161
- Ralls 29173
- Randolph 29175
- Saline 29195
- St. Charles 29183
- St. Louis 29189
- Stoddard 29207
- Taney 29213
- Washington 29221
Montana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Erie 36029
- Hamilton 36041
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Oswego 36075
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Washington 36115
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 22 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Indiana 42063
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Warren 42123
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 19 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Buckingham 51029
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Giles 51071
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Highland 51091
- King William 51101
- Loudoun 51107
- Montgomery 51121
- Northampton 51131
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince William 51153
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SEIT ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289698 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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