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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
 Setaria magna   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key

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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image of Setaria magna, Saltmarsh Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass, Giant Bristlegrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_chma9_001_lvd

        

image of Setaria magna, Saltmarsh Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass, Giant Bristlegrass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_sema6_001_lvd

        

image of Setaria magna, Saltmarsh Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass, Giant Bristlegrass

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

 

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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

 

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