| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poaceae | Setaria adhaerens | Disturbed areas. | Native of the tropics. Distributed widely throughout the tropics and subtropics, in North America from s. AL west to CA (perhaps only adventive in portions of that distribution). |  | |
| Poaceae | Setaria barbata | Mary-grass | Rockland hammock edge, on ballast at Apalachicola (Franklin County, FL), other disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. Reported for Miami-Dade County (Bradley [in prep.]). | |
| Poaceae | Setaria chapmanii | Chapman’s Bristlegrass, Coral Bristlegrass | Coastal rock barrens, coastal berms, hammocks, prairies, also on waste ground near wool-combing mill (Berkeley County, SC). | S. FL; West Indies (Bahamas, Cuba); se. Mexico (CAM, ROO, YUC). |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria corrugata | Coastal Plain Bristlegrass | Pinelands, disturbed areas. | Ne. NC south to s. FL, west to e. TX; Cuba; Dominican Republic. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria faberi | Nodding Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass | Fields, pastures, roadsides, gardens, other disturbed areas. | Native of China. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria firmula | Knotgrass | Sandy areas. | Endemic to s. TX. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria grisebachii | Grisebach’s Bristlegrass | Dry and rocky areas; eastwards a waif on chrome ore piles in MD. | OK, NM, and AZ south through TX through Mexico to Guatemala and Belize. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria italica | Foxtail-millet, Italian Millet, Hungarian Millet | Fields, roadsides, frequently planted as a cover crop after soil disturbance. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria leucopila | Plains Bristle-grass | Dry plains and upland slopes, also along watercourses. | OK, CO, and NM south into Mexico. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria macrosperma | Coral Bristlegrass | Hammocks and maritime forests, also disturbed areas. | SC south to FL; Bahamas, Mexico? |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria macrostachya | Large-spike Bristle-grass | Dry grasslands. | TX to Nicaragua; West Indies. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria magna | Saltmarsh Foxtail-grass, Giant Foxtail-grass | Tidal marshes (oligohaline and less typically mesohaline), interdune swales, near-coastal marshes, less typically inland, in south Florida interior in deep freshwater marshes and “holes” in cypress domes and strand swamps. | NJ south to s. FL, west to e. TX; disjunct inland in GA, AR, LA, TX, and NM; West Indies; Bermuda; Costa Rica, Mexico (CAM, COA, ROO, TAM, YUC), Brazil, Argentina. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria megaphylla | Bigleaf Bristlegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of South America. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria pallidefusca | Disturbed areas. | Native of tropical Africa. | ||
| Poaceae | Setaria palmifolia | Palmgrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Asia. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria parviflora | Knotroot Bristlegrass, Perennial Foxtail-grass | Marshes, ditches, moist disturbed areas, pine rocklands, and dry disturbed areas over limestone. | MA to IA south to s. FL and s. TX, south through Mexico to Central America and South America; CA and NV; West Indies. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria pumila | Yellow Foxtail | Disturbed areas, lawns, fields, less commonly in natural habitats. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria ramiseta | Dry uplands, caliche and sand. | Nc. TC and NM to n. Mexico (COA, NLE, and TAM) | ||
| Poaceae | Setaria rariflora | Brazilian Bristlegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of South America. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria reverchonii | Reverchon's Bristle-grass | Limestone areas. | Nc. TX and sw. OK south to s. TX. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria scheelei | Southwestern Bristle-grass | Limestone canyons, alluvial soils. | TX (especially Edwards Plateau) and AZ south into Mexico. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria setosa | West Indian Bristlegrass | Dry, disturbed areas in s. FL, northwards on ballast in old seaports as a waif and apparently not established. | Native of the West Indies. | |
| Poaceae | Setaria sphacelata | African Bristlegrass | Disturbed areas. | Native of Africa. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria texana | Texas Bristle-grass | Prairies. | S. and w. TX south into ne. Mexico (NLE, TAM). | |
| Poaceae | Setaria verticillata | Hooked Bristlegrass | Fields, roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria verticilliformis | Reported for NJ, PA, MD, and AL (FNA 2003a, Kartesz 1999). | |||
| Poaceae | Setaria villosissima | Hairy-leaf Bristle-grass | Rocky or sandy soils. | E., c., and w. TX south to n. Mexico (CHH, COA, NLE, SIN, SON, TAM). | |
| Poaceae | Setaria viridis var. major | Giant Green Foxtail | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
| Poaceae | Setaria viridis var. viridis | Green Bristlegrass | Fields, pastures, roadsides, other disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. |  |
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