| Common
Name: downy
brome, cheatgrass, cheat, downy cress, drooping brome
Scientific Name: Bromus tectorum L.
Family Name: Poaceae (Graminae) - Grass Family
Identification
Notes:
life
cycle - winter annual, reproducing by seed
culms -
upright or spreading growth
habit 1,
growth
habit 2, growth
habit 3, growth
habit 4
leaves - blades dense, soft hairs above and below, twisted,
rolled in bud; auricles absent; ligule membranous with hairs;
sheaths closed, hairy, veined
seedheads -
drooping panicle, frequently purple-tinted seedheads 1, seedheads 2, seedheads
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