Bromus orcuttianus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Pooideae |
| Genus: | Bromus |
| Species: | B. orcuttianus
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Bromus orcuttianus is a species of brome grass known by the common name Orcutt's brome.
Distribution
[edit]It is native to western North America from Washington to Baja California, where it grows in many types of habitat.
Description
[edit]It is a perennial grass which may reach 1.6 meters in height. The inflorescence is an open array of spikelets, the lower ones drooping or nodding. The spikelets are flattened and have short awns at the tips of the fruits.
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Categories:
- Bromus
- Bunchgrasses of North America
- Grasses of Mexico
- Grasses of the United States
- Native grasses of California
- Flora of Baja California
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Flora of the West Coast of the United States
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Pooideae stubs