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|accepted_name=Milium effusum
|accepted_authority=L.
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|common_names=Wood millet;Millet diffus
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Milium;Milium effusum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Milium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Milium effusum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 780
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 55-140 cm, erect from decumbent bases, glabrous; nodes 3-5. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous; ligules 3-9 mm, obtuse, erose; blades 5-26 cm long, 8-17 mm wide, flat, glabrous, equally distributed on the culms. <b>Panicles</b> 10-27 cm; branches 1-9 cm, in pairs or fascicles, flexuous, spreading or drooping, scabrous, with spikelets mainly near the distal ends. <b>Glumes</b> 2.5-5 mm, scabrous, 3-veined, acute to acuminate; lemmas 2.3-3 mm, acute; anthers 1.5-2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14, 28.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wis.;W.Va.;N.H.;N.J.;N.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Conn.;Iowa;Ill.;Ind.;Mass.;Md.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Ohio;S.Dak.;Vt.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.
|discussion=<p><i>Milium effusum</i> is widespread in temperate to subarctic regions in the Northern Hemisphere. North American plants belong to <i>M. effusum</i> var. cisatlanticum Fernald, an elegant native grass that grows in woodlands in eastern North America. It differs from <i>M. effusum</i> L. var. effusum, which grows from Europe to Asia and Japan, in having 2-3 panicle branches at most nodes and spikelets 2.5-5 mm long, rather than 4-5 panicle branches at most nodes and spikelets about 3 mm long. A cultivar of <i>M. effusum</i>, 'Aureum', is grown for its yellowish leaves.</p>
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name=Milium effusum
|authority=L.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wis.;W.Va.;N.H.;N.J.;N.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Conn.;Iowa;Ill.;Ind.;Mass.;Md.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Ohio;S.Dak.;Vt.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Milium
|species=Milium effusum
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