Species

Setaria italica

Common Name(s)

foxtail millet

Authority

Setaria italica (L.) P.Beauv.

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

SETITA

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

Structural Class

Grasses

Year Naturalised

1870

Origin

Unknown but probably derived from European S. viridis

This page last updated on 28 May 2010