Bromus catharticus |
Bromus erectus |
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rescue brome, rescue grass, rescuegras |
brome dresse, erect brome, meadow brome, upright brome |
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Habit | Plants annual, biennial, or perennial; loosely cespitose or tufted. | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. | ||||
Culms | 30-120 cm tall, 2-4 mm thick, erect or decumbent. |
50-100 cm, erect; nodes (1)2-3, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent; internodes usually glabrous, rarely pubescent. |
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Sheaths | usually densely, often retrorsely, hairy, hairs sometimes confined to the throat; auricles absent; ligules 1-4 mm, glabrous or pilose, obtuse, lacerate to erose; blades 4-30 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, flat, glabrous or hairy on both surfaces. |
glabrous or pilose; auricles absent; ligules to 1.5 mm, glabrous, truncate, lacerate; blades 10-20 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, often involute or folded, glabrous or sparingly hairy. |
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Panicles | 9-28 cm, usually open, erect or nodding; lower branches shorter than 10 cm, 1-4 per node, spreading or ascending, with up to 5 spikelets variously distributed. |
10-20 cm, erect, contracted; branches erect or ascending. |
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Spikelets | (17)20-40 mm, shorter than at least some pedicels and branches, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, not crowded or overlapping, with 4-12 florets. |
15-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 5-8(12) florets. |
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Glumes | smooth or scabrous, glabrous or pubescent; lower glumes 7-12 mm, 5-7(9)-veined; upper glumes 9-17 mm, 7-9(11)-veined, shorter than the lowest lemma; lemmas 11-20 mm, lanceolate, laterally compressed, strongly keeled, usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent distally, smooth or scabrous, 9-13-veined, veins often raised and riblike, margins sometimes conspicuous, hyaline, whitish or partly purplish, apices entire or toothed, teeth acute, shorter than 1 mm; awns absent or to 10 mm; anthers 0.5-1 mm in cleistogamous florets, 2-5 mm in chasmogamous florets. |
glabrous; lower glumes 7-9 mm, 1-veined; upper glumes 9-11 mm, 3-veined; lemmas 10-13(15) mm, lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs and margins glabrous or sparsely pubescent, apices subulate to acute, entire; awns 5-7 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 4-6.5 mm. |
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2n | = 42. |
= 56. |
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Bromus catharticus |
Bromus erectus |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; AZ; CA; CO; DC; FL; GA; IA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NJ; NM; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; SC; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; HI; AB; NF; ON
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AL; CA; CT; DC; ID; IL; KY; MA; ME; MI; ND; NY; OH; OR; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; AB; NS; ON; QC |
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Discussion | Bromus erectus is native to Europe. In the Flora region, it grows on disturbed soils, often over limestone. It is established in the eastern United States and Canada, and has been reported from other locations where it has not persisted. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 199. | FNA vol. 24, p. 218. | ||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Bromeae > Bromus > sect. Ceratochloa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Bromeae > Bromus > sect. Bromopsis | ||||
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Synonyms | Ceratochloa unioloides, B. willdenowii, B. unioloides | |||||
Name authority | Vahl | Huds. | ||||
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