Index / Search / Setaria pumila
§1 Plant
Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult.
vernacular yellow foxtail — 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
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 295 counties across 24 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Low
- Fire
- None
- Salinity
- None
- 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
- 5–7
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 3 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
- 200,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 295 counties across 24 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 57 I ▾
- Adair 21001
- Ballard 21007
- Barren 21009
- Bell 21013
- Boone 21015
- Boyd 21019
- Boyle 21021
- Breathitt 21025
- Breckinridge 21027
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Casey 21045
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Estill 21065
- Fayette 21067
- Franklin 21073
- Fulton 21075
- Garrard 21079
- Graves 21083
- Hardin 21093
- Harlan 21095
- Henry 21103
- Hickman 21105
- Hopkins 21107
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Laurel 21125
- Lewis 21135
- Lincoln 21137
- Logan 21141
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Marion 21155
- Marshall 21157
- McCracken 21145
- McLean 21149
- Menifee 21165
- Mercer 21167
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nelson 21179
- Oldham 21185
- Pendleton 21191
- Pike 21195
- Powell 21197
- Pulaski 21199
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Spencer 21215
- Todd 21219
- Trigg 21221
- Washington 21229
- Whitley 21235
Louisiana view state ↗ 62 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Iberville 22047
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Plaquemines 22075
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. James 22093
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Vermilion 22113
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Baton Rouge 22121
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Maryland view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Adams 28001
- Alcorn 28003
- Attala 28007
- Bolivar 28011
- Calhoun 28013
- Claiborne 28021
- Clarke 28023
- DeSoto 28033
- Forrest 28035
- Humphreys 28053
- Jackson 28059
- Jefferson 28063
- Jefferson Davis 28065
- Lafayette 28071
- Leflore 28083
- Madison 28089
- Panola 28107
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Simpson 28127
- Smith 28129
- Sunflower 28133
- Tallahatchie 28135
- Tate 28137
- Tishomingo 28141
- Union 28145
- Walthall 28147
- Warren 28149
- Washington 28151
- Wilkinson 28157
New Jersey view state ↗ 11 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 16 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 47 I ▾
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Brown 48049
- Cameron 48061
- Carson 48065
- Castro 48069
- Coleman 48083
- Coryell 48099
- Culberson 48109
- Dallas 48113
- Deaf Smith 48117
- Edwards 48137
- El Paso 48141
- Floyd 48153
- Galveston 48167
- Gray 48179
- Hale 48189
- Hartley 48205
- Hemphill 48211
- Hutchinson 48233
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Jefferson 48245
- Lamb 48279
- Lubbock 48303
- McLennan 48309
- Moore 48341
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Ochiltree 48357
- Parmer 48369
- Pecos 48371
- Real 48385
- Roberts 48393
- Sabine 48403
- San Patricio 48409
- Sherman 48421
- Sutton 48435
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Ward 48475
Utah view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SEPU8 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289693 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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