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Japanese Brome

Bromus japonicus

Also called Japanese Chess, Thunberg's Brome

Japanese Brome
Photo: Matt Lavin from Bozeman, Montana, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass, Annual
Native range
Medit. to Temp. Eurasia
Climate
temperate

About

Bromus japonicus, the Japanese brome, is an annual brome grass native to Eurasia. The grass has a diploid number of 14.

Where it grows

Bromus japonicus grows in fields, waste places, road verges, sand dunes, and other similar places. It is a troublesome weed in grain fields and is a noxious weed in prairies, as it competes with native perennials for water and nutrients. It is intolerant of alkaline soils.

Other Bromus plants

Aleutian brome · Weedy brome · Nodding brome · Australian brome · Arizona brome · Field brome · Bromus auleticus · Lesser Hairy Brome · Chilean chess · Meadow brome · Patagonian Brome · Rattlesnake brome

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bromus japonicus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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