Plants Profile for Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass)

General Information
Symbol:	BRTE
Group:	Monocot
Family:	Poaceae
Duration:	Annual
Growth Habit:	Graminoid
Native Status:	AK I CAN I GL I HI I L48 I
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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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©Robert Soreng. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

Steve Hurst. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. Afghanistan, Kabul. Usage Requirements.

©Steven Perkins. USDA NRCS Lockeford PMC (CAPMC). November 4, 2004. Usage Requirements.

Jose Hernandez. Provided by ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory. United States, AZ. Usage Requirements.

Cassondra Skinner. Provided by USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM). United States, ID, Bureau of Land Management Jarbidge Resource Area. April 24, 2007. Usage Requirements.

Cassondra Skinner. Provided by USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM). United States, ID, Bureau of Land Management Jarbidge Resource Area. May 16, 2007. Usage Requirements.

©Gary A. Monroe. United States, NV, Lyon Co., Eldorado Canyon. May 5, 2007. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 1: 274. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950. Manual of the grasses of the United States. USDA Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. Washington, DC. 1950. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
ANTE6	Anisantha tectorum (L.) Nevski
BRTEG	Bromus tectorum L. var. glabratus Spenner
BRTEH	Bromus tectorum L. var. hirsutus Regel
BRTEN	Bromus tectorum L. var. nudus Klett & Richt.

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Subclass	Commelinidae
Order	Cyperales
Family	Poaceae ⁄ Gramineae – Grass family
Genus	Bromus L. – brome
Species	Bromus tectorum L. – cheatgrass

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Colorado downy brome C list (noxious weeds)
Connecticut drooping brome-grass Potentially invasive, banned

U.S. Weed Information
Bromus tectorum cheatgrass downy brome early chess military grass thatch bromegrass This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
Cal-IPC	California Invasive Plant Council. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal-IPC Publication 2006-02 (1 February 2007). California Invasive Plant Council. Berkeley, California.
FLEPPC	Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. 1999. Invasive plant list. Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. Florida.
HEAR	USDI, Geological Survey. 1999. Information index for selected alien plants in Hawaii (20 October 2003). Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project, Biological Resources Division, Haleakala Field Station. Makawao, Hawaii.
N'EAST	Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal,and J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York.
NE&GP	Stubbendieck, J., G.Y. Friisoe,and M.R. Bolick. 1994. Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains. Nebraska Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Lincoln, Nebraska.
SEEPPC	Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council. 1996. Invasive exotic pest plants in Tennessee (19 October 1999). Research Committee of the Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council. Tennessee.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

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