Flower head. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RG & FJ Richardson, Vic

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

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

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: RG & FJ Richardson, Darlington, Vic

Common Name

Whorled Pigeon Grass, Sticky Grass, Bristle Pigeon Grass

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Introduced annual grass to 1m tall or sprawling. Leaves with a sheath at the base. Ligule a membrane with a fringe of hairs. Leaves 5-30cm long, 3-16mm wide, flat, hairless, hairy, or rough, edges slightly rough, with pointed tips. Spikelets greenish or purplish, 1-3mm long. Mature seed groups cylindrical. Seeds with no bristles on the actual seed, but 1-4 bristles below each spikelet.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 139

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

ausgrass2 description with photos:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/Setaria-verticillata