Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Setaria magna
FAMILY
Poaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Setaria from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Setaria magna
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-68-001:
Setaria magna FAMILY Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chaetochloa magna
COMMON NAME:
Saltmarsh Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass, Giant Bristlegrass
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_chma9_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950 pnd_sema6_001_lvd
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Keith Bradley kab_setaria_magna_78325
June Collier County FL
Mistletoe Swamp
Culms to 4m tall. Panicles densely flowered, nodding, to 50cm long, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Setaria magna
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Setaria magna
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 029-68-001:
Setaria magna
FAMILY
Poaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Setaria magna
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Chaetochloa magna
4124
Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Annual
Habitat: Tidal marshes (oligohaline and less typically mesohaline), interdune swales, near-coastal marshes, less typically inland, in south Florida interior in deep freshwater marshes and “holes” in cypress domes and strand swamps, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Coastal Plain (rare in Piedmont)
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LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate, 2-ranked
FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Inflorescence a dense, spikelike panicle
FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall?
Grain dark
Grain
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p465
- Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950) p724
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p145
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