Foxtail bristlegrass
ನವಣೆफॉक्स्टेल मिलेटதினை
Setaria italica (L.) P.Beauv.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 10 cm
Poaceae
Also called Foxtail millet, Italian millet
Formerly Alopecurus caudatus, Chaetochloa germanica, Chaetochloa italica, Chamaeraphis italica, and 37 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 86 cm to 1.3 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 120–200 cm; Plants for a Future 0.5–0.5 m
- Spread
- 10 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 粱, 小米, 秫米
- Korean
- 조
- German
- Kolbenhirse
- Slovenian
- bar, laški muhvič
- Russian
- Могар
- Simplified Chinese
- 粱, 小米, 谷子
- Italian
- Panico
- Asturian
- miyu menor
- Czech
- bér italský
- Welsh
- cibogwellt yr Eidal
- Estonian
- Itaalia kukeleib
- Finnish
- italianpantaheinä, tähkähirssi
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Setaria italica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.