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  • COMMON NAME: Bristly foxtail, rough bristle grass.
  • ARABIC: لصيق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Setaria verticillata (L.) Beauv.
  • SYNONYMS: Chaetochloa ambigua, Chaetochloa brevispica, Chaetochloa verticillata, Chamaeraphis italica.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: barbed bristle stick to each other, clothes, animal fur, etc.
https://www.floraofqatar.com/setaria_verticillata.htm Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003.
Annual grasses, densely tufted, nearly glabrous, erect or ascending, branched leafy culms up to 60 cm high. Leaf-blade flat, linear, broad, tapering towards tip, dark-green, rough or hairy on upper surface, 5-10 cm long, 5-9 mm broad. Inflorescence up to 3 cm long, narrow panicle, cylindrical, dense form clusters of spikelets , with awn-like brustle; bristles retrorsely scabrid. Glumes mostly unequal, upper glume as long as spikelets, 5-7-nerved. Grains small, ovoid-oblong, compressed at back. Flowering from February to May.
Moist ground, gardens and farms.
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