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Panicum miliaceum L.

Common millet; Proso millet; Chinese millet; French millet

Poaceae · Bangladesh, East Himalaya +7

No habitat climate
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Summary

Panicum miliaceum is a grain crop with many common names, including proso millet, broomcorn millet, common millet, hog millet, Kashfi millet, red millet, and white millet. Archaeobotanical evidence suggests millet was first domesticated about 10,000 BP in Northern China. Major cultivated areas include Northern China, Himachal Pradesh of India, Nepal, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Middle East, Turkey, Romania, and the Great Plains states of the United States. About 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) are grown each year. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Proso millet", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 8 of the 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Myanmar · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, Baleares, France, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Canary Is., Madeira, Cameroon, Botswana, Lesotho, Northern Provinces, Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Amur, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Gulf States, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China Southeast, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Vietnam, Philippines, Tasmania, Chatham Is., New Zealand North, New Zealand South, New Caledonia, Caroline Is., Marianas, Hawaii, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Honduras, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Puerto Rico, French Guiana, Guyana, Colombia, Brazil West-Central, Brazil Southeast, Brazil North, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Uruguay · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker36.13, 72.08 · in the densest population, 4 records (44% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 8 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1618 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 9 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Josep Gesti, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Ondřej Křivan, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Terry Instone, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Panicum 9 in the reference

Panicum amarum Panicum amarum Bitter Panicum Photo: CC BY, Devin FloydPanicum brevifolium Panicum brevifolium Shortleaf panic grass Photo: CC0, author not statedPanicum capillare Panicum capillare Witch-grass Photo: CC0, author not statedPanicum coloratum Panicum coloratum Klein grass Photo: CC BY, RachelPanicum dichotomiflorum Panicum dichotomiflorum Autumn millet Photo: CC0, author not statedPanicum hallii Panicum hallii Hall's witchgrass Photo: CC BY, RachelPanicum philadelphicum Panicum philadelphicum Philadelphia witchgrass Photo: CC BY-SA, Henry "Nick" RobertsonPanicum repens Panicum repens Torpedo grass Photo: CC BY, Duarte FradePanicum virgatum Panicum virgatum Switchgrass Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Leptoloma miliacea; Milium esculentum; Milium paniceum; Milium panicum; Panicum asperrimum and 46 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India +6
Wild records
9 in range · 8 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 43 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (30 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 12 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Panicum miliaceum L. (the item's: IPNI 131424-3, POWO 412217-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Proso millet, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q165196)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 220 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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