Stats

Lifespan

Annual

Size

Small

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

Europe

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Seeds

Defense

Spines

Status

Common

About

Yellow foxtail is a tall grass that grows from 20 cm to over 1 metre tall, and its leaves twist and curl up to 30 cm long. The grass has a yellow or yellow-tinged inflorescence, which is a stiff, cylindrical bundle of spikelets 2 to 15 cm long with short, blunt bristles.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Poaceae

Genus

Setaria

Species

Setaria pumila