A question came up in the NAMA meeting on Nov. 17, concerning whether anyone in North America is growing either little millet (*Panicum sumatrense*) or kodo millet (*Paspalum scrobiculatum*). I'll offer answers here and add some info of possible interest. The short answers are no - neither little millet nor kodo millet are grown as crops in North America. Longer answers follow: LITTLE MILLET (not to be confused with switchgrass) It may be that there is no little millet as a plant at all in North America. (It is a native to, and domesticated in, Asia.) Confusing the matter a bit is that a related species that is native to North America, *Panicum virgatum* (called a switchgrass) has evidently at some time been given the synonym *P. sumatrense*./1 /2 However, it is not the same. *P. virgatum* is grown as an ornamental, with some discussion of its value for biofuel. I don't find any information on whether its seeds were ever used as food in the distant past. It is interesting that two other relatives of little millet in the Panicum genus are grown as food in North America, namely proso millet (P. miliaceum) and Sonoran panic grass or millet (P. hiericaule), altho the latter only on a very small scale. KODO MILLET (aka ricegrass paspalum) On the other hand, kodo millet, better known in the US (and Canada?) by names such as ricegrass paspalum, is present in North America, but it is not grown as a crop. In fact, it has been "declared a 'noxious or quarantine weed' in at least ten states" in the US, and as "a noxious weed by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA-APHIS)."/3 Kodo is a native of Africa, but a crop mainly in South Asia. I have no info on how it came to North America, but might it have been from seeds brought during the slave trade?/4 /5 Kodo appears to be the only member of the *Paspalum* genus to be cultivated for its grains. Another member of this genus, *P. vaginatum*, aka seashore paspalum, has received attention as a resilient turfgrass. A cultivar of this species is being used in the fields at the current World Cup in Qatar /6 Don Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US North American Millets Alliance Notes: 1. https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/panicum-virgatum-northwind/ 2. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderProfileResult... 3. http://www.iucngisd.org/gisd/species.php?sc=1423 4. https://www.science.org/content/article/american-rice-out-africa 5. https://www.geog.psu.edu/sites/www.geog.psu.edu/files/event/miller-lecture-c... (see especialy under "Slave Agency in Instigating the Cultivation of African Foodstaples") 6. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5a34763e-a2c7-44e7-8fb3-2859f... (see under "Plant Breeders' Rights")