Bromus tectorum

Family: Poaceae
Common Name: Cheatgrass
Symbol: BRTE
Description: Annual, culms 5-90 cm, slender, puberulent below the panicle. Sheaths usually densely and softly retrorsely pubescent to pilose, upper sheaths sometimes glabrous. Auricles absent; ligules 2-3mm, glabrous, obtuse. Panicles, 5-20 cm long, 3-8 cm wide, drooping, usually 1 sided. Branches drooping, 1 sided and longer than the spikeletes, usually at least 1 branch with 4-8 spikelets. Spikelets usually shorter than the panicle branches, sides parallel or diverging distally, moderately compressed, often purplish. SEINet Portal Network. 2020. http//:swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Accessed on November 02.