Taxon: Bromus secalinus L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AL°, AR*°, DE°, FL°, GA°, KS°, LA°, MS°, NJ°, OK*°, SC°, TN°, TX°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• cheat   (Source: Intermt F ) – English
  
• cheatgrass   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• chess   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• rye brome   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• brome faux-seigle   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• bromo-centeio   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-cevadinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• koster ržanoj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• råglosta   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey - Canakkale
  Caucasus: Georgia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Hungary; Slovakia
  East Europe: Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Turkey - Istanbul
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [possibly]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Oregon, Washington

References:

• Acedo, C. & F. Llamas. 1999. The genus Bromus L. (Poaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula. Phanerog. Monogr. 22:78–82.
• 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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cronquist, A. et al. 1972–. Intermountain flora.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hitchcock, A. S. 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Matthei, O. 1986. El género Bromus (Poaceae) in Chile. Gayana, Bot. 43:64.
• 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.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Soreng, R. J. et al. 2003. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): IV. Subfamily Pooideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 48:184.
• 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.
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bromus secalinus.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bromus secalinus.

Check other web resources for Bromus secalinus L.:

• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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
• 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.

Images:

• Florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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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