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Green Foxtail |
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| Halbi Name | Kolia lengadi |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
| Vernacular name | Foxtail | |
| Scientific name | Setaria viridis | |
| Family | Poaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Flat, scabrous adaxially, scabrous to glabrous abaxially, entire. Margins ciliolate at the base, often purplish near the base of the leaf. Sheaths with cilia on the margins, glabrous to scabrous. Ligules of hairs. | Photo Gallery |
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| Habitat and distribution | Margins of upland woods, upland stream banks | |
| Flowering and fruiting | June - October. | |
| Associated with | Kharif flora | |
| Habit | Erect, 2.5m tall, erect to spreading at the base, herbaceous, multiple from the base, from fibrous roots, glabrous. | |
| Inflorescence | Terminal, Spike-like but actually paniculate with short alternate branches, long, nodding near the apex. Axis of inflorescence-short and long antrorse hairs. Spikelets subtended by 1-3 stiff bristles. Bristles green to purple. | |
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