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§1 Plant
Bromus ciliatus L.
vernacular fringed brome — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bromus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b
County-level range
· 191 counties across 17 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- Low
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -3 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 175 min.
- Precipitation
- 12–40 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–7.5
- Root depth
- 16 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 236,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 191 counties across 17 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 51 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Fulton 36035
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Forest 42053
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lawrence 42073
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 7 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BRCI2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703662 ↗Record version
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