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DOWNY BROME
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Bromus tectorum L.
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| Russell County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 8-24 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July |
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| Also Called: | | Cheatgrass. | | Culms: | | Erect, slender, solitary or tufted, glabrous. | | Blades: | | Flat, 1/2 to 7 inches long, less than 1/4 inch wide, soft-hairy. | | Sheaths: | | Rough, flattened toward collar, soft-hairy. | | Ligules: | | Membranous, jagged-toothed. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicles, open, 2 to 8 inches long, much-branched, drooping, somewhat 1-sided, often purplish at maturity. | | Spikelets: | | Slender-stalked, 4-8-flowered, 1/2 to 3/4 inch long; glumes unequal, soft-hairy; lemmas to 1/2 inch long, downy, awns 1/2 to 3/4 inch long. | | Habitat: | | Dry disturbed sites, roadsides, and waste areas. | | Distribution: | | Throughout Kansas. | | Origin: | | Introduced from Europe. | | Forage Value: | | Downy brome offers fairly good forage value prior to inflorescence emergence but has practically no value after that time. Songbirds and turkeys consume the seeds. | | Comments: | | Tufted. An aggressive, cool season weed. The awns can injure the eyes and mouths of grazing livestock and contaminate fleece. |
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