View source for Bromus catharticus

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|accepted_name=Bromus catharticus
|accepted_authority=Vahl
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|common_names=Rescue grass
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ceratochloa unioloides
|authority=unknown
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|name=Bromus willdenowii
|authority=unknown
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|name=Bromus unioloides
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Bromeae;Bromus;Bromus sect. Ceratochloa;Bromus catharticus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Bromeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bromus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Bromus sect. Ceratochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bromus catharticus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 199
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, biennial, or perennial; loosely cespitose or tufted. <b>Culms</b> 30-120 cm tall, 2-4 mm thick, erect or decumbent. <b>Sheaths</b> usually densely, often retrorsely, hairy, hairs sometimes confined to the throat; auricles absent; ligules 1-4 mm, glabrous or pilose, obtuse, lacerate to erose; blades 4-30 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, flat, glabrous or hairy on both surfaces. <b>Panicles</b> 9-28 cm, usually open, erect or nodding; lower branches shorter than 10 cm, 1-4 per node, spreading or ascending, with up to 5 spikelets variously distributed. <b>Spikelets</b> (17)20-40 mm, shorter than at least some pedicels and branches, elliptic to lanceolate, strongly laterally compressed, not crowded or overlapping, with 4-12 florets. <b>Glumes</b> smooth or scabrous, glabrous or pubescent; lower glumes 7-12 mm, 5-7(9)-veined; upper glumes 9-17 mm, 7-9(11)-veined, shorter than the lowest lemma; lemmas 11-20 mm, lanceolate, laterally compressed, strongly keeled, usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent distally, smooth or scabrous, 9-13-veined, veins often raised and riblike, margins sometimes conspicuous, hyaline, whitish or partly purplish, apices entire or toothed, teeth acute, shorter than 1 mm; awns absent or to 10 mm; anthers 0.5-1 mm in cleistogamous florets, 2-5 mm in chasmogamous florets. <b>2n</b> = 42.</span><!--

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|distribution=D.C;Kans.;N.Dak.;Okla.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Nebr.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Nev.;Va.;Alta.;Nfld. And Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.;S.Dak.
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==Key==
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|1
|Awns absent or to 3.5 mm long
|[[Bromus catharticus var. catharticus|Bromus catharticus var. catharticus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Awns (5)6-10 mm long
|[[Bromus catharticus var. elatus|Bromus catharticus var. elatus]]
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name=Bromus catharticus
|author=
|authority=Vahl
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Ceratochloa unioloides;Bromus willdenowii;Bromus unioloides
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=D.C;Kans.;N.Dak.;Okla.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Nebr.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Nev.;Va.;Alta.;Nfld. And Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Iowa;Ariz.;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.;S.Dak.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Bromeae
|genus=Bromus
|section=Bromus sect. Ceratochloa
|species=Bromus catharticus
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