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|accepted_name=Milium
|accepted_authority=L.
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Milium
|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>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 778
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 10-180 cm, glabrous or hispidulous; nodes 2-5, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> open, smooth or scabrous; auricles absent; ligules hyaline, glabrous, obtuse to acute; blades flat, smooth or scabrous over the veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> open panicles; branches drooping to ascending, smooth or scabrous, some branches longer than 1 cm. <b>Spikelets</b> pedicellate, dorsally compressed, with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the floret; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the floret. <b>Glumes</b> equal, equaling or exceeding the lemmas, membranous, smooth or scabrous, unawned; calluses blunt, glabrous; lemmas dark, coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous, obscurely 5-veined, margins involute, apices unawned; paleas similar to the lemmas and partly enfolded by them; lodicules 2, free, glabrous, toothed or not; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> shorter than the lemmas, concealed at maturity, glabrous; hila 1/5 to nearly 1/2 the length of the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 4, 5,7,9.</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.;Idaho;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.
|discussion=<p><i>Milium</i> is a circumtemperate genus of four species. All the species grow in mesic to dry mixed woods and dry open habitats. <i>Milium effusum</i> is native to the Flora region; <i>M. vernale</i> has become established.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=callihan1988a
|text=Callihan, R.H. and D.S. Pavek. 1988. Milium vernale survey in Idaho County, Idaho. Idaho Weed Control Rep. 1988:153
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|id=femald1950a
|text=Femald, M.I. 1950. The North American variety of Milium effusum. Rhodora 52:218-222.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants perennial; blades 8-17 mm wide; panicles 10-27 cm long; lemmas 2.3-3 mm long
|[[Milium effusum|Milium effusum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Plants annual; blades 1.9-5 mm wide; panicles 4-11.5 cm long; lemmas 2-2.3 mm long
|[[Milium vernale|Milium vernale]]
|}
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name=Milium
|author=William J. Crins;
|authority=L.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
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|family=Poaceae
|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.;Idaho;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask.
|reference=callihan1988a;femald1950a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Milium
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