Millet Plant

When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant individual plants should be spaced approximately 24 inches apart.

Millet plant. White millet is a warm season cultivated grass species. The plant has shallow but fibrous roots. See millet plant stock video clips.

Jade Princess ornamental millet. Purple Majesty Millet will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity with a spread of 3 feet. Millet was first brought to the United States in 1874 and first planted in Southern California.

It also tillers freely forming a bushy plant. Unlike white millet the inflorescence is a heavily drooping dark red panicle. Try these curated collections.

The plant has open branching drooping panicles and is tolerant of a wide range in temperature. See more ideas about millet plant millet plants. Jade Princess is a compact cultivar reaching about 2 feet tall with chartreuse rather than purple foliage and dark-colored pollen-less flower spikes.

Millets were probably first cultivated in Asia more than 4000 years ago and they were major grains in Europe during the Middle Ages. Millets are sometimes considered cereal grains. Deadheading the flower spikes before seeds.

Millet is a classed as grain sorghum and is a popular ingredient in birdseed. Millet provides quick high quality feed compared with forage sorghum although total yield and drought tolerance are lower. Proso or Common millet Panicum miliaceum is grown in temperate climates.