JAPANESE BROME
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Bromus japonicus Thunb.
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| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: 12-30 inches |
| Family: Poaceae - Grass Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June, July |
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| Also Called: | | Japanese bromegrass, japanese chess. | | Culms: | | Erect or spreading, slender, bent at base; nodes swollen, brownish. | | Blades: | | Flat, 3 to 8 inches long, .1 to .2 inch wide, usually densely hairy with conspicuous gray hairs, midrib prominent. | | Sheaths: | | Densely velvety pubescent. | | Ligules: | | Membranous, tip erose. | | Inflorescences: | | Panicle, open, 3 to 8 inches long, usually drooping to one side when mature; branches of different lengths, in whorls, spreading, often zigzag, each branch bearing 1-5 spikelets at tip. | | Spikelets: | | Flattened, often hairy, .6 to 1 inch long, about .2 inch wide, 6 to 13 flowered; awn prominent, 1/4 to 3/4 inch long, often bent or twisted at maturity. | | Habitat: | | Found in dry or moist waste areas, disturbed sites, fields, or roadsides. | | Distribution: | | Occurs throughout Kansas. | | Origin: | | Introduced from Europe. | | Reproduction: | | Reproduces by seeds. | | Forage Value: | | Can provide good forage value when grazed early in the growing season. | | Uses: | | Prairie chickens are known to consume the seeds. | | Comments: | | A widespread weedy grass that forms colonies. |
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