Giant Foxtail
Setaria faberi
Plantae
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Annual
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- East Asia
- Movement
- Sessile
- Breeding
- Seeds
- Defense
- Spines
- Status
- Uncommon
About
This tall grass grows in sunny fields and disturbed soil across Asia. A single plant can produce over twelve thousand seeds in one growing season.
Life cycle
- 1.seedA dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
- 2.sproutA first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
- 3.saplingA young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
- 4.matureFully 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 faberi