• GENERAL DISTRIBUTION
• ECOSYSTEMS
• STATES
• BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS
• KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS
• SAF COVER TYPES
• SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES
• HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:

The PLANTS database provides distributional maps of the typical subspecies of foxtail chess and of red brome. The typical subspecies is native throughout Europe and the British Isles [61,71]. In North America, it occurs widely in coastal and central California and is also recorded from Reno, Nevada, and Portland, Oregon [61,78].

Red brome is native to southern Europe [75]. In North America, it is distributed from central Washington south to Baja California and east to central Idaho, southwestern Texas, and Sonora [61,78]. It is casually adventive in the Northeast [34].

ECOSYSTEMS [33]:

STATES:

BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS [12]:

KUCHLER [51] PLANT ASSOCIATIONS:

SAF COVER TYPES [31]:

SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES [69]:

HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:

Nevada: Red brome is a dominant annual of blackbrush (Coleogyne ramossisima) communities at 4,000 to 5,000 feet (1,200-1,500 m). In the western Yucca Flat of southern Nevada, red brome is a member of creosotebush (Larrea tridentata)-blackbrush transition communities between 4,000 and 4,300 feet (1,200-1,300 m), and is infrequent in creosotebush associations between 3,000 and 4,000 feet (900-1,200 m). Red brome is abundant within creosotebush-saltbush (Atriplex spp.)-blackbrush communities [10]. Red brome is a prominent member of blackbrush communities within the Mojave Desert [11,19].

Utah:  Red brome is common in blackbrush, juniper (Juniperus spp.), creosotebush [59], and sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia) [59,65] communities of Utah. It is most commonly found at base of shrubs in shadscale and white burrobush (Hymenoclea salsola) communities [57].

Classifications describing plant communities in which foxtail chess is a dominant species are as follows:

CA: [16,36,48,62]

Related categories for SPECIES: Bromus madritensis | Foxtail Chess