Bromus arvensis

Field brome

Family: Poaceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Field brome is a naturalized annual grass found in southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in open places at an elevation of 1,768 meters. Flowering in July, this plant produces purple-tinged spikelets in narrow to open inflorescences up to 18 centimeters long. Growing with erect stems 30 to 127 centimeters tall, it has distinctively soft-hairy lower leaf sheaths. Its leaves have blades 1.5 to 5 millimeters wide with a small ligule 1.5 to 2.6 millimeters long. Each spikelet contains 5 to 14 florets with awns 4 to 11 millimeters long.

Habitat: Open places

Bloom period: Jul

Elevation: 1768 m

Bioregions: s SNH

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