Journal Entry for Bio Blitz- Giant Foxtail/Japanese Bristle-grass.
Out of my observations, I have chosen the Japanese Bristle-grass or giant foxtail as my plant of interest. Its binomial name is Setaria Faberi, and as its name suggests it is indeed an invasive plant to North America. Its phylogeny is as goes... Domain: Eukarya, Kingdom: Plantae, Phylum: Vascular plant, Class: Magnoliopsida, Order: Poales, Family: Poaceae, Genus: Setaria, Species: Setaria Faberi. An interesting adaptation that this organism has is in the form of its "fox-tail". the tail is a cluster of grass and its main purpose is seed dispersal. With the number of tails and the amount, a which each tail can disperse this plant can form monocultures extremely fast. This adaptation shows how and why it is considered an extremely difficult invasive species, one of which has dominated parts of North America. A very interesting adaptation that most of the plants my group viewed had in common was height, in which most of them were low-height plants. These plants are bush-like.
