Gateshead Birders

Flora

Soft Brome


Bromus hordeaceus

Other names: Soft Brome-grass

Photo © Keith Robson
June 1989 Sunniside, Gateshead, Co. Durham, UK

Occasional on waste ground or as a garden weed.

Spikelets 1.5-2 cm long.

ID: Spikelets close to main stem, not long-stalked. Lemma with a narrow whitish margin which 3/4 of the way up the lemma is only about 1/4 of the distance from edge to midrib (1/2 distance in B Lepidus)

Other features: Very variable but generally hairy everywhere especially on leaves, sheaths, ligules and spikelets.

 

 

Photo © Keith Robson

 

Photo © Keith Robson


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