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 ILPIN INFORMATION ON    Bromus pubescens
 
 
 CLASS:    MONOCOTYLEDENAE
 ORDER:    CYPERALES
 FAMILY:   POACEAE
 SCIENTIFIC NAME:  Bromus pubescens
 AUTHORITY:  Muhl.
 
 COMMON NAMES:
    CANADA BROME GRASS
    WOODLAND BROME
 
 SYNONOMY:   None
 
 PLANTS CODE: BRPU6
 
 NATURAL COMMUNITIES:
     FOREST
     SAVANNA
 
 
 SAF FOREST COVER TYPE:
     NO
 
 NATURAL DIVISION:  UNAVAILABLE
 
 COUNTIES:
   ADAMS           ALEXANDER       BOND            BOONE           BROWN
   CALHOUN         CARROLL         CHAMPAIGN       CHRISTIAN       CLARK
   CLAY            CLINTON         COLES           COOK            CUMBERLAND
   DEKALB          DEWITT          DUPAGE          EDGAR           EDWARDS
   FAYETTE         FRANKLIN        FULTON          GALLATIN        GREENE
   GRUNDY          HAMILTON        HANCOCK         HARDIN          HENDERSON
   HENRY           JACKSON         JEFFERSON       JERSEY          JO DAVIESS
   JOHNSON         KANE            KANKAKEE        KNOX            LAKE
   LASALLE         LAWRENCE        LOGAN           MCDONOUGH       MCHENRY
   MCLEAN          MACON           MACOUPIN        MADISON         MARION
   MARSHALL        MASSAC          MENARD          MONROE          MONTGOMERY
   MORGAN          MOULTRIE        OGLE            PEORIA          PERRY
   PIATT           PIKE            POPE            PULASKI         RANDOLPH
   RICHLAND        ROCK ISLAND     ST. CLAIR       SALINE          SANGAMON
   SCHUYLER        SCOTT           SHELBY          STARK           STEPHENSON
   TAZEWELL        UNION           VERMILION       WABASH          WASHINGTON
   WAYNE           WHITE           WILL            WILLIAMSON      WINNEBAGO
   WOODFORD
 
 GROWTH FORM:  Monocot
 
 TAXONOMY COMMENTS:
     Wagon (l950) states that B. pubescens Muhl. is proper name for
     what previously had been called B. purgans L.
 
 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS:
    ROOTS:  Adventitious   (fibrous)
    LEAF ARRANGEMENT:   Alternate
    LEAF TYPE:   Simple
    LEAF MARGIN:   Entire
    LEAF VENATION:  Parallel
    LEAF SHAPE:     Linear
    INFLORESCENCE:   Panicle
    FLOWER MEROUS:  3
    FLOWER STRUCTURE:   Complete
    FLOWER PLACEMENT:  Hypogynous
    FRUIT:   Grain
 
 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION:
     ORIGIN:   Native
 
 POPULATION DYNAMICS:
     STATE STATUS: Not listed
     FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed
     COMMONNESS:  Common
     ENDEMIC:   NOT-ENDEMIC
 
 BIOLOGIC:
     HABIT:   Grasslike
     LIFE CYCLE:   Perennial
     FLOWERING PERIOD:
         MONTH BEGINNING-      6         MONTH END-      8
     TROPHIC STATUS:  Autotrophic
     C02 FIXATION:  C3
     SEX:      Perfect
 
 ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS:
     Species is distributed in moist, open woods.
 
 ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS:   No data entered
 
 FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:    No data entered
 HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA:    No data entered
 
 WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION:   No data entered
 
 REVEGETATION PLANTINGS:    No data entered
 
 
 REFERENCES:
Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm.  1979.  Plants of the Chicago region.  Third ed.
     The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.  922 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H.  1967-continuing.  The illustrated flora of Illinois.
     Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Downton, W. J. S.  1975.  The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants.
     Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105.
 
 END OF DATA FOR SPECIES  Bromus pubescens
 
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 ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes
 Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
     *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015