Flower heads. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Boorowa, NSW

Flower head. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Boorowa, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, east of Boorowa, NSW

Line drawing in Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 165.

Common Name

Slender Pigeon Grass, Bent Pigeon Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Introduced perennial grass to 1.2m tall. Leaves with a hairless sheath at the base, sometimes rough towards the top. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaves flat, 10-30cm long, 2-8mm wide, rough, often glaucous, lower surface hairless. Spikelets 2-3mm long. Seeds with 0 awns, but subtended by 4-12 bristles 2-12mm long. Mature seed groups cylindrical.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Setaria~parviflora

ausgrass2 description with line drawings and photos:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/setaria-parviflora