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§1 Plant
Bromus marginatus Nees ex Steud.
vernacular mountain brome — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bromus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 181 counties across 15 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -28 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 150 min.
- Precipitation
- 10–20 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.5–8
- Root depth
- 20 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 64,080
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Medium
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 181 counties across 15 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
California view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 21 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Baker 41001
- Benton 41003
- Clackamas 41005
- Columbia 41009
- Coos 41011
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Deschutes 41017
- Douglas 41019
- Grant 41023
- Harney 41025
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Klamath 41035
- Lake 41037
- Linn 41043
- Malheur 41045
- Morrow 41049
- Multnomah 41051
- Sherman 41055
- Tillamook 41057
- Umatilla 41059
- Union 41061
- Wallowa 41063
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 28 N ▾
- Beaver 49001
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Iron 49021
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Morgan 49029
- Piute 49031
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Wasatch 49051
- Washington 49053
- Weber 49057
Washington view state ↗ 15 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BRMA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703686 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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