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§1 Plant

Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C.E. Hubb. ex M.B. Moss

vernacular African bristlegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
SESP5
GBIF
5289709
Rank
species
African bristlegrass (Setaria sphacelata)
Platephotograph · Suvarna Parbhoo MohanCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Setaria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 6 counties across 3 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 6 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 6 counties across 3 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SESP5 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5289709 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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