Setaria pumila
Family : Poaceae
Yellow Bristle-grass
7/119 : Alien
A little more widespread than many of the alien grasses. The [ TA 13 32] and [TA 09 36] records are for plants growing from discarded bird seed. [TA 10 37] is a truly rural record where the plants were found in the corner of a field of fodder maize, although it is thought to have its origins in a game-cover strip sown in earlier years.

J F Robinson 1902: With other alien grasses "Waste ground near St Andrew's Dock, Hull, where sweepings of dock sheds and railway trucks and much other refuse are thrown out."

R Middleton 2000

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