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§1 Plant
Bromus sterilis L.
vernacular poverty brome — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bromus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 108 counties across 11 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 108 counties across 11 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- York 42133
Virginia view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Caroline 51033
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Greene 51079
- Henrico 51087
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Shenandoah 51171
- Warren 51187
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BRST2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703647 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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