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Bromus hordeaceus
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species of plant
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Native toAlbania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is.
Observations recorded570,022
IV, V, RM, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, Juan Fernandez
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7,574
- With media
- 4,262
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, CMN, UTEP, UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, JSNM
- Recorded in
- Canada, Finland, United States, Poland, Turkey
Wikidata facts
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- Bromus hordeaceus
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- Bromus hordeaceus
- taxon common name
- 大麦状雀麦
- has fruit type
- caryopsis
- taxon range
- Tibet Autonomous Region
- short name
- B. hordeaceus
- taxon author citation
- Pall.
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Encyclopedic overview
Bromus hordeaceus, the soft brome, is an annual or biennial species of grass in the grass family (Poaceae). It is also known in North America as bull grass, soft cheat, and soft chess.
It is the most common species of Bromus in Britain, where it can be found on roadsides, waste ground, meadows, and cultivated land. It is found throughout Europe and western Asia, and was introduced into North and South America and Australia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bromus hordeaceus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.