Green bristlegrass
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 46 cm
Poaceae
Also called Green bristol-grass
Formerly Chaetochloa comosa, Chaetochloa gigantea, Chaetochloa viridis, Chamaeraphis viridis, and 28 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
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Old World to C. & SE. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Simplified Chinese
- 莠, 狗尾草, 谷莠子
- Chinese
- 狗尾草, 狗尾草子
- Czech
- bér zelený
- German
- Grüne Borstenhirse
- Estonian
- roheline kukeleib
- Finnish
- viherpantaheinä
- French
- sétaire verte
- Dutch
- groene naaldaar, Groene naaldaar
- Slovenian
- zeleni muhvič
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Setaria viridis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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