Taxon: Bromus marginatus Steud.

Common names:

• brome marginé   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• mountain brome   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• western bromegrass   (Source: Websters Dict )
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control; revegetator   (fide F Utah ed2, as B. carinatus; NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazing fide F Utah ed2, as B. carinatus; NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001, for hay & silage)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for bromegrass   (head smut resistance fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan [s.]
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Nebraska [w.], North Dakota [w.], South Dakota [w.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico, Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah
  Mexico [n.]

References:

• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F) [= B. carinatus Hook. & Arn.].
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep) [= B. carinatus Hook. & Arn. var. carinatus].
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Pavlick, L. 1995. Bromus L. of North America. (Bromus NAmer)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Welsh, S. L. et al. 1993. A Utah flora. (F Utah ed2) [= B. carinatus Hook. & Arn.].
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bromus marginatus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bromus marginatus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Bromus breviaristatus Buckley
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Bromus marginatus var. latior Shear
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Bromus parviflorus Nutt. ex A. Gray, nom. inval.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Bromus marginatus Steud.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• 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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