Species

Setaria verticillata

Common Name(s)

rough bristle grass

Authority

Setaria verticillata (L.) P.Beauv.

Family

Poaceae

Flora Category

Vascular - Exotic

NVS Species Code

SETVER

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

Features

Stems 0.3 to 1.2 m tall, erect but branching more than those of other foxtails. Panicle dense, 5 to 10 cm long, with one bristle at the base of each spikelet, rarely 2 or 3. Bristles barbed (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981), causing seed heads to stick to each other, like 'Velcro'.

Flower Colours

Green

Year Naturalised

1904

Origin

Europe

Reproduction
Seeds

Seed
Seed, greenish, similar to S. viridis in size and shape (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981).

Dispersal
Seeds can be carried great distances by man and animals (Wax, Fawcett and Isely 1981).

This page last updated on 16 Dec 2015