Spreading Panic-grass

Setaria distans, synonyms including Paspalidium distans, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native to New Caledonia, New Guinea, most of Australia and the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-shoto). It was first described by Carl Bernhard von Trinius in 1829 as Panicum distans.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Spreading Panic-grass being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Setaria jubiflora
• Setaria constricta
• Digitaria ramularis
• Entolasia marginata

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Poales

Family

Poaceae

Genus

Setaria

Species

Setaria distans

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