Vegetative Morphology | |
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| Plants | annual or perennial; cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous. |
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| Culms | 10-180 cm, glabrous or hispidulous. |
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| Nodes | 2-5, glabrous. |
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| Sheaths | open, smooth or scabrous. |
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| Auricles | absent. |
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| Ligules | hyaline, glabrous, obtuse to acute. |
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| Blades | flat, smooth or scabrous over the veins. |
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Reproductive Morphology | |
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| Inflorescences | open panicles. |
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| Branches | drooping to ascending, smooth or scabrous. |
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| Spikelets | dorsally compressed, with 1 floret. |
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| Rachillas | not prolonged beyond the fertile floret. |
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| Disarticulation | above the glumes. |
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| Glumes | equal, equaling or exceeding the lemmas, membranous, smooth or scabrous. |
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| Calluses | blunt, glabrous. |
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| Lemmas | coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous, margins involute, obscurely 5-veined. |
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| Paleas | similar to the lemmas and partly enfolded by them. |
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| Lodicules | 2, free, glabrous, toothed or not toothed. |
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| Anthers | 3. |
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| Caryopses | glabrous. |
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| Hila | 1/5 to nearly 1/2 the length of the caryopses. |
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Species Distribution Maps
Chromosome Number(s)x = 4, 5, 7, 9. Additional NotesName from an old Latin word for millet, an appellation which is associated with species in several different genera. Milium is a circumtemperate genus of four species. All the species grow in mesic to dry mixed woods and dry open habitats. Milium effusum is native to the Flora region; M. vernale has become established here.
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Name/Synonymy Publication InfoMilium L., Sp. pl. 1:61 (1753). Miliarium Moench, Methodus 204 (1794). TYPE: Milium effusum L.
Treatment fromW.J. Crins. Milium in Flora of North America, volume 24. In prep. Oxford University Press.
Fact Sheet Developed ByPedro Oñativia Lake © 2006.
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