Taxon: Bromus tectorum L.
Genus: Bromus subgenus: Stenobromus
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Bromeae.
Nomen number: 7880
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:77. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Apr-2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 20-Nov-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6). Accessions:
38 in National Plant Germplasm System.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
- 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:
-
CO*, CT*, WI°.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- Link to species profile at

See also subordinate taxa:
- bronco grass (Source: Intermt F
) – English
- cheatgrass (Source: Intermt F
) – English
- downy brome (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English
- downy chess (Source: Grass US
) – English
- drooping brome (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English
- June grass (Source: Intermt F
) – English
- brome des toits (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French
- Dachtrespe (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German
- bromo-felpudo (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- bromo-pendente (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- capim-cevadinha (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- bromo velloso (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- espiguilla colgante (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish
- More:
Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait; Saudi Arabia Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia [s.w.] Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan China: China [w.]
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Pakistan
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Denmark; Norway [s.]; Sweden [s.] Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym] Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- naturalized in e. Australia, New Zealand, United States (including Hawaii), South Africa, & s. South America
- Acedo, C. & F. Llamas.
1999. The genus Bromus L. (Poaceae) in the Iberian Peninsula.
Phanerog. Monogr.
22:196–207.
- Boulos, L.
1995. Flora of Egypt checklist. (L Egypt)
- CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland.
Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
- Conant, P. et al.
1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
- Cronquist, A. et al.
1972–. Intermountain flora. (Intermt F)
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
- Hansen, A. & P. Sunding.
1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17. (L Macar ed4)
- Hitchcock, A. S.
1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. (Grass US)
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
- Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire.
1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. (L Maroc)
- Koyama, T.
1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Markle, G. M. et al., eds.
1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
- Matthei, O.
1986. El género Bromus (Poaceae) in Chile.
Gayana, Bot.
43:73.
- Meikle, R. D.
1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
- Migahid, A. M.
1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. (F Saudi ed3)
- Mouterde, P.
1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
- Rehm, S.
1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
- Sales, F.
1993. Taxonomy and nomenclature of Bromus sect. Genea.
Edinburgh J. Bot.
50:25–30.
- 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. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Stace, C.
1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
[= Anisantha tectorum (L.) Nevski].
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
- Tzvelev, N. N.
1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
[= Anisantha tectorum (L.) Nevski].
- USDA National Agricultural Library.
National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan.
1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Bromus tectorum L.:
-
Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
- 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
- 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:
- 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.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?7880 (09 February 2010)
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