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|accepted_name=Setaria italica
|accepted_authority=(L.) P. Beauv.
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|common_names=Foxtail millet;Setaire italienne;Setaire d'italie;Millet des oiseaux
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Setaria italica subsp. stramineofructa
|authority=unknown
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|name=Metzgeri
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Setaria;Setaria subg. Setaria;Setaria italica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Setaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Setaria subg. Setaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Setaria italica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 556
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 10-100 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> mostly glabrous, margins sparsely ciliate; ligules 1-2 mm; blades to 20 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, flat, scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 8-30 cm, dense, spikelike, occasionally lobed below; rachises hispid to villous; bristles 1-3, to 12 mm, tawny or purple. <b>Spikelets</b> about 3 mm, disarticulating between the lower and upper florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 3-veined; upper glumes 5-7-veined; lower paleas absent or 1/2 as long as the lower lemmas; upper lemmas very finely and transversely rugose to smooth and shiny, exposed at maturity. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;W.Va.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Mont.;Oreg.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;S.C.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Setaria italica</i> was cultivated in China as early as 2700 B.C. and during the Stone Age in Europe. Nowadays it is grown mostly for hay or as a pasture grass, but it has been used as a substitute for rice in northern China. It is sometimes cultivated in North America, but it is better known as a weed in moist ditches, mostly in the northeastern United States. It is closely related to <i>S. viridis</i>, differing in the longer (3 mm) spikelets and smooth, shiny upper florets which readily disarticulate above the lower florets. It exhibits considerable variation in seed and bristle color, bristle length, and panicle shape. Using these characters, Hubbard (1915) recognized several infraspecific taxa; they are not treated here.</p>
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name=Setaria italica
|author=
|authority=(L.) P. Beauv.
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Setaria italica subsp. stramineofructa;Metzgeri
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;W.Va.;Mass.;Maine;N.H.;R.I.;Vt.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;Tenn.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Mont.;Oreg.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ohio;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Miss.;S.C.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Setaria
|subgenus=Setaria subg. Setaria
|species=Setaria italica
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