It prefers pH between 5.8 and 6.5. Smooth brome is a long-lived, cool season perennial. Forms an extensive sod by rhizomes. It is moderate to easy to establish, but spreads rapidly through both seeds ...

Inhabiting lands dominated by midgrasses, it is more prevalent in grass meadows and slopes of the eastern United ... It also inhabits stands of smooth brome under irrigation or located adjacent to ...