Broom-corn millet

Proso millet
Ripe proso millet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Panicum
Species:	P. miliaceum
Binomial name
Panicum miliaceum L.
Synonyms
Leptoloma miliacea (L.) Smyth Milium esculentum Moench nom. illeg. Milium panicum Mill. nom. illeg. Panicum asperrimum Fisch. Panicum asperrimum Fischer ex Jacq. Panicum densepilosum Steud. Panicum milium Pers. nom. illeg. Panicum ruderale (Kitag.) D.M.Chang Panicum spontaneum Zhuk. nom. inval.

Panicum miliaceum, with many common names including proso millet,broomcorn millet,common millet,broomtail millet,hog millet,Kashfi millet red millet, and white millet, is a grass species used as a crop. Both the wild ancestor and location of the original domestication of proso millet are unknown, but it first appears as a crop in both Transcaucasia and China about 7,000 years ago, suggesting it may have been domesticated independently in each area. It is still extensively cultivated in India, Nepal, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Middle East, Turkey and Romania. In the United States, proso is mainly grown for birdseed. It is sold as health food, and due to its lack of gluten, it can be included in the diets of people who cannot tolerate wheat.

The name comes from the pan-Slavic general and generic name for millet (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian: просо and Polish, Bosnian, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian: proso).

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