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Bromus

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Bromus
a genus of valuable fodder grasses in the family Poaceae. Includes B. inermis (smooth bromegrass), B. catharticus (B. unioloides, prairie grass).


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Now, the rapid advance of Bromus tectorum, a weedy Eurasian grass inadvertently introduced to the United States about a century ago, is igniting concern about the future of the West's sagebrush steppe and pinyon/juniper woodlands.
The three most common dominant herbaceous species were Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush), Gutierrezia sarothrae (snakeweed), and Bromus tectorum (downy chess grass); and the three most common dominant overstory and understory species were Juniperus monosperma (one-seed juniper), d.
 
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