Panicum miliaceum L.

WISCONSIN
Dane County
ssp. RUDERALE	"PfìxlTrt
(Kitagawa 1937)Tzvelev 19 W
(=P. spontaneum Lyss. ex Zhukovsky 1950)
’’WILD PROSO MILLET”
Aggressively weedy annual in moist clayey
maize field, 6 (depauperate)-17 dm tall with
1-6 or more stems from one base. Inflo-
rescences (ll-)l7-55 cm long to (5— )10—U2
cm wide, now beginning to shed the black
seeds, though many yet green and not quite
out of sheath yet, the former heavy with
seed and nodding, the latter, esp. in
smaller infls. erect and stiffer.
(Species, according to Dr. R. G. Harvey,
U.W. Agronomist, a bad weed on many farms
in Southern Wisconsin, present here for
ca. 8 years (!!?), this doubtful, as
this is the first collection from $tate)
Messerschmidt Farm^l mi. north of Truax
Airfield just W of Highway 51, ca 5 mi
wwe from center of Madison.
BOTANICAL
New York Botanical Garden
Hugh H. litis 28U56 July 26, 1978
<n£>IMAGED
17bTlDb
1769106