Participant Info

Species

Panicum miliaceum

Family

Poaceae

CommonName

proso millet, broomcorn millet, hog millet, etc.

Presence

maybe

Status

adventive, escaped

EarliestDate

1944

LatestDate

1944

Ecosystem

basin, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

UBasin

Counties

Alamosa

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Other Localities

PhotoRecords

Comments

NEED IN SITU PHOTOS. Proso millet has been recorded only once from the Watershed, a plant found on the Adams State University campus in 1944—an escape, perhaps from a local residence where it was cultivated for chicken feed. Other escapes, however, may be expected, since some local farms are now growing Panicum miliaceum as a gluten-free grain. Old World domestication of the species is ancient, going back some 10,000 years (the name "proso" is the generic Slavic name for millet). BONAP shows escapes recorded from nearly every USA state. Locations follow the Rio Grande drainage, spottily, down through New Mexico, with a cluster at the Gulf of Mexico. Allred et al. (2020) note that the species is sometimes found growing under bird feeders.

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