See other conspecific taxa:

• Setaria pumila subsp. pumila (0 accessions)
• Setaria pumila subsp. subtesselata (0 accessions)

Common names:

• pigeon grass  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• yellow bristle grass  (Source: BSBI) - English
• yellow foxtail  (Source: F NAmer) - English
• yellow foxtail  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• sétaire glauque  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)

Economic Importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases (fide WorldWeeds 763. 1997) crop pests (fide WorldWeeds 763. 1997)
• Weed: potential seed contaminant; potential seed contaminant

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia
• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Eritrea, Ethiopia
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Oman, Yemen
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
• MONGOLIA: Mongolia
• RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East]
• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, Korea

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina
• MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Sweden
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary
• EASTERN EUROPE: Moldova, Russian Federation, [Kalmykia, Astrakhan, Saratov, Volgograd] Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania, Slovenia
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)

Pacific

• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Micronesia, United States [Guam, Northern Mariana Islands]


Naturalized

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Azores, Madeira Islands] Spain [Canarias]
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Mauritius

Asia-Tropical

• INDO-CHINA: Thailand, Vietnam

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia, Norfolk Island
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Norway
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus

Northern America

• Canada, Mexico, United States

Pacific

• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia, Pitcairn
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Dominica, Hispaniola, Jamaica, United States [Puerto Rico]
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile, Paraguay [Alto Paraguay]

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