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Bromus catharticus
Also called Rescue Brome, Schrader's Brome, Rescue Grass, Prairie Grass
Rescuegrass is a coarse winter annual or biennial grass native to South America, grown mainly as pasture forage in temperate and warm regions. It is sown in cool seasons and thrives as a fast-growing forage crop rather than an ornamental.
Bromus catharticus is a species of brome grass known by the common names rescue grass (America), prairie grass (New Zealand), and Schrader's bromegrass in English, and cebadilla criolla and cebadilla in Spanish.
It is the most common and most well-known of several species in the Bromus catharticus complex within the Bromus section Ceratochloa, all of which are hexaploids with the chromosome count 2n=42.
Bromus catharticus is native to most of South America (Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
Bromus catharticus is commonly used as a pasture grass in areas with warm and temperate climate.
Meadow brome · Bromus bromoideus · California brome · Fringed brome · Oat brome · Soft brome · Smooth brome · Mediterranean brome · Compact brome · Bald brome · Broom brome · Poverty brome
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bromus catharticus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
