Taxon: Bromus briziformis Fisch. & C. A. Mey.

Common names:

• rattlesnake brome   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• rattlesnake chess   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• darrgräslosta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Zander ed14)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Proc RS Edinburgh 89B:296. 1986)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe [c.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  North America
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. [mentions].
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. [= B. brizaeformis].
• Pavlick, L. 1995. Bromus L. of North America.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rollins, R. C. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 1986. Weeds of south-west Asia in North America with special reference to the Cruciferae. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 89B:296.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:158.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382. [= "Briza bizaeformis"].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bromus briziformis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bromus briziformis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bromus briziformis.

Check other web resources for Bromus briziformis Fisch. & C. A. Mey.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Florets with caryopses: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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