Saarela, Jeffery M.;Peterson, Paul M.;Valdés-Reyna, Jesus
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Native toBelarus, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, China North-Central, Corse, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk
Observations recorded37,428
Common Name: rye brome
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,612
- With media
- 3,828
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, CP, CHSC, INECOL, ANSP, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
Bromus secalinus is a species of bromegrass known as rye brome. The specific epithet secalinus is Latin, meaning "rye-like". The fruits are hard, rounded glumes that appear superficially similar to the rye grain, which gives the brome its common and scientific name. The grass has a diploid number of 28.
The grass is native to Eurasia but is well known in many other parts of the world where it has been introduced. It is a noxious weed throughout much of North America.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bromus secalinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.