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Bromus catharticus (rescuegrass; rescue brome; rescuegras; rescue grass)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Bromus catharticus is a species of brome grass known by the common names rescuegrass, grazing brome, prairie grass, and Schrader's bromegrass. It is native to South America but it can be found in other places, including Europe, Australia and North America, as an introduced species. It is an annual or perennial grass growing up to a meter in height. The inflorescence is made up of spreading spikelets, the upper ones erect and the lower ones nodding or drooping. Each spikelet is very flat and pointed, the fruits tipped with short awns.
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Infraspecies

Bromus unioloides var. unioloides

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Screening - Summer [2]  Dense
Screening - Winter [2]  Porous
Bloom Period [2]  Early Spring
Drought Tolerance [2]  Low
Fire Tolerance [2]  Low
Frost Free Days [2]  80 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [2]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [2]  Spring
Fruit/Seed End [2]  Spring
Growth Form [2]  Bunch
Growth Period [2]  Spring, Fall, Winter
Growth Rate [2]  Rapid
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Annual/Perennial
Propagation [2]  Seed
Regrowth Rate [2]  Slow
Root Depth [2]  12 inches (30 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [2]  Rapid
Seed Vigor [2]  High
Seeds Per [2]  51680 / lb (113935 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [2]  Erect
Structure [4]  Grass
Vegetative Spread Rate [2]  None
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Foliage Color [2]  Green
Fruit Color [2]  Brown
Height [2]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [2]  USDA Zone: 7 Low Temperature: 0 F° (-17.8 C°) → 10 F° (-12.2 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Very Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
Water Use [2]  High

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ditylenchus dipsaci (Bud and stem nematode)[9]
Filenchus exiguus <Unverified Name>[9]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 7Ctenomys talarum, Enrique R. Justo, Luciano J. M. De Santis, and Marta S. Kin, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 730, pp. 1–5 (2003)
♦ 8Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 9Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 10STUDY ON THE DIET AND FEEDING PREFERENCES OF Calomys venustus (RODENTIA, MURIDAE), Fabiana Castellarini, Héctor L. Agnelli, and Jaime J. Polop, Mastozoología Neotropical; 5(1):5-11 (1998)
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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