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§1 Plant

Setaria verticillata (L.) P. Beauv.

vernacular hooked bristlegrass — species · Poaceae


USDA
SEVE3
GBIF
5289686
Rank
species
hooked bristlegrass (Setaria verticillata)
Platephotograph · galanhsnu source · iNaturalist ↗

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

County-level range

· 258 counties across 30 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 258 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 258 counties across 30 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 5 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 42 I
Indiana view state ↗ 11 I
Iowa view state ↗ 26 I
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 2 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 I
Maine view state ↗ 2 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I
Michigan view state ↗ 9 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 14 I
Missouri view state ↗ 3 I
Montana view state ↗ 6 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 25 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I
New York view state ↗ 24 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 7 I
Ohio view state ↗ 9 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 16 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 5 I
Vermont view state ↗ 2 I
Virginia view state ↗ 5 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 16 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/SEVE3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5289686 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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