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§1 Plant
Bromus sterilis L.
vernacular poverty brome — species · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Bromus
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 245 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 245 counties across 27 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 5 I ▾
California view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Del Norte 06015
- Fresno 06019
- Humboldt 06023
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tehama 06103
- Tuolumne 06109
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Barry 29009
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Butler 29023
- Callaway 29027
- Camden 29029
- Carroll 29033
- Cedar 29039
- Cole 29051
- Dade 29057
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Franklin 29071
- Greene 29077
- Howell 29091
- Jasper 29097
- Johnson 29101
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Maries 29125
- McDonald 29119
- Miller 29131
- Newton 29145
- Oregon 29149
- Osage 29151
- Phelps 29161
- Polk 29167
- Pulaski 29169
- Saline 29195
- Shannon 29203
- St. Louis 29189
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Wright 29229
Nevada view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Perry 42099
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Warren 42123
- York 42133
Tennessee view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Augusta 51015
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Caroline 51033
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Clarke 51043
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Greene 51079
- Henrico 51087
- Loudoun 51107
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Rappahannock 51157
- Roanoke 51161
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Russell 51167
- Shenandoah 51171
- Warren 51187
Washington view state ↗ 12 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BRST2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2703647 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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