Setaria gracilis

Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 02/04/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 16/04/2006, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Setaria gracilis.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Panicle.<br>Photographer: John Smith-Dodsworth, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Panicle after mature spikelets have fallen. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 25/03/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Culm pubescent to scabrid at base of panicle. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 25/03/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Collar hairs. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 25/03/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Section of panicle in flower. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 25/03/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Section of panicle with immature fruit. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 24/03/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Rhizome showing ”knotted” form. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 02/04/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Margin of leaf sheath glabrous; surface of upper part of leaf sheath minutely scabrid. Hutt Valley.<br>Photographer: Jeremy R. Rolfe, Date taken: 24/03/2007, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0'>CC BY</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common name

knot-root bristle grass

Synonyms

Setaria geniculata

Family

Poaceae

Authority

Setaria gracilis Kunth

Flora category

Vascular – Exotic

Structural class

Grasses

NVS code

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.

SETGRA

Conservation status

Not applicable

Flower colours

Green

Year naturalised

1896

Origin

N. America

Etymology

gracilis: Slender

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