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Bromus commutatus (hairy brome; meadow brome; hairy chess)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Bromus commutatus, known as Meadow Brome, is an annual or biennial species of plant in the grass family Poaceae. In the United States it is known as Hairy Chess.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Height [2]  37 inches (.95 m)
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [4]  Grass
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry

Protected Areas

Predators

Phenacoccus karaberdi[5]
Phytomyza nigra[6]
Tetramesa maculata[6]
Urocitellus brunneus (Idaho ground squirrel)[7]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Blumeria graminis[8]
Puccinia recondita[8]

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
7Spermophilus brunneus, Eric Yensen and Paul W. Sherman, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 560, pp. 1-5 (1997)
8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0