Photo: Pennisetum glaucum 0.
Seedhead, or flowerbuds. Botanical garden Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 2004-09-17.
Seedhead, or flowerbuds. Botanical garden Kumpula, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 2004-09-17.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.
Engl.: pearl millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, pigeongrass, wild millet, yellow bristlegrass, yellow foxtail.
Deu.: Perlhirse.
Fran.: millet à chandelles, millet perle.
Sven.: negerhirs.
Suom.: untivaheinä, neekerinhirssi.
Bot. syn.: Panicum americanum L., Panicum glaucum L., Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke, Pennisetum typhoideum Delile, Setaria glauca (L.) Beauv., Setaria lutescens (Weigel) F. T. Hubbard.
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