Millet Grass
By Ann MacDonald
Millet Grass (Milium) - Grasses, some of them graceful. Our native M. effusum is worth cultivating for its feathery plumes.
Genus Millettia
Trees , shrubs or woody climbers . Leaf imparipinnately compound ; leaflets mostly stipellate and opposite; stipules small. Inflorescence a terminal raceme or panicle; flowers white, rose or purple.
Millet
Related Category: Plants
common name for several species of grasses cultivated mainly for cereals in the Eastern Hemisphere and for forage and hay in North America.
Milletia reticulata
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Evergreen Wisteria
Description
Milletia reticulata is an evergreen twining vine native to S. China and Taiwan. This vine has leathery dark green compound leaves.
Millettia
Species and varieties
Millettia reticulata (Evergreen Wisteria) ...
Walter's-millet is a grass. Stems erect, thick, to 5 ft. tall, 1-several from base; leaf blades flat, linear, smooth, to 2 ft. long, to 3/4 in.
This cultivar of pearl millet has wide, deep purple foliage and stems. It forms a 5-foot-high specimen with tight cylindrical flowers of purple-brown seeds-a favorite of many birds. This plant makes a stunning container specimen.
Millettia taiwanensis
Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae
Chinese Evergreen Wisteria, Tropical Wisteria ...
Rice millet (Piptatherum miliaceum) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.
infestation (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
" class="thickbox" ...
Armand Millet ( Nymphaea )
Armena Tulip ( Tulipa armena )
Armenian Cranesbill ( Geranium psilostemon ) ...
Setaria Italica
Millet
Foxtail
Italian millet
Special thanks to Pierre Guertin for assistance with identification.
Witchweed: Pearl Millet Diseases - Plant Parasites
USDA. ARS. Crop Genetics and Breeding Research Unit.
Identification/Description; Photographs; Impacts; Distribution ...
foxtail millet Setaria italica
French rose Rosa gallica
French tamarisk Tamarix gallica
Fuller's teasel Dipsacus fullonum
fulvous daylily; orange daylily Hemerocallis fulva
garden goosefoot; nettle-leaf goosefoot Chenopodium murale ...
Foxtail millet (Setaria macrocheata)
Fragrant gladiolus, sword lily (Acidanthera species)
Frangipani (Plumeria rubra, Plumeria acuminata)
Freesia (Freesia species) ...
gremillet, scorpionne), the name popularly applied to the small annual or perennial herbs forming the genus Myosotis of the natural order Boraginaceae, so called from the Greek µus, a mouse, and oiis, an ear, ...
Members of the millettioid clade have a pseudoracemose inflorescence with more than a single flower at each node (Tucker 1987a); see da Sila (2012) for a phylogeny of part of this clade, Lonchocarpus is split.
All of our cereal grains belong to this family, including wheat (Triticum), rice (Oryza), wild rice (Zizania), corn (Zea), oats (Avena), barley (Hordeum), millet (Echinochloa) and rye (Secale).
We harvest the seeds for our pet ratties, as also sprays of millet that erupt under the birdfeeders. Often they get started late in the year, however, & the seeds don't fully ripen if autumn chills stop them in their tracks.
Of all the families plants, the Poaceae, or grass family, is by far the most important, providing the bulk of all feedstocks (rice, corn - maize, wheat, barley, rye, oats, pearl millet, sugar cane, sorghum).
‘Purple Majesty’ millet continues in this tradition, featuring 3- to 5-foot-tall plants, purple strap-like leaves, and 1-foot-tall purple flower spikes.
Andrews and Rajewski looked at several purple pearl millet selections and made the 'Purple Majesty' hybrid from the most desirable parents.
It likes a well-drained, sunny site as the plant is tropical in origin and likes warmth.
Seed - cooked[105, 171, 272]. Used as a millet[183]. The seed can be cooked whole or ground into a flour and used as a mush or porridge[257]. Young plants and shoots - raw or cooked[105, 144]. Eaten raw with rice[183].
Composition ...
According to another theory, the base word is an Iberic cognate to Italian meligo sorghum, millet, although the diminutive appears less plausible. Also, borrowing from an African tongue has been suggested.
It provides most of our food in the form of cereals (for example, wheat, rice, barley, oats, millet, maize, sorghum) and sugar (sugar cane).
Barley, wheat, oats, millet and rice are all grasses. These are still the staple foods of much of the population of the world, supplemented in richer countries by meat which is itself the result of feeding grass or cereals to animals.
But in Peru, Chile and Bolivia, Quinoa is largely cultivated for its nutritious seeds, which are produced in great abundance and are made into soup and bread, and when fermented with millet, make a kind of beer. They are called 'Little Rice.' ...
Jointed goatgrass (Aegilops cylindrica)
Perennial sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis)
Poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
Puncturevine (Tribulus terrestris)
Velvetleaf (Abutilon theophrasti)
Wild proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) ...
on location of the seed awn, and can include head shaking; sneezing; nasal or ocular discharge; rubbing at the ears, eyes, or mouth; difficulty in chewing or swallowing; or signs of digestive disturbance. Yellow or green foxtail, rye and millet can ...
Thyme, Wild Tulip, Wild Turnip, Wineberry, Winter Aconite, Winter Heliotrope, Winter Wild Oat, Woad, Wood Anemone, Wood Barley, Wood Club-rush, Wood Cranesbill, Wood Dock, Wood Fescue, Wood Forget-me-not, Wood Meadow-grass, Wood Melick, Wood Millet, ...
 See also: Grass, Green, May, Pink, Medic
  
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