Bromus ciliatus
Fringed brome
Family: Poaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Fringed brome is a California native perennial grass found in the Sierra Nevada, southern Sierra Nevada, San Bernardino Mountains, and northern White and Inyo Mountains in damp meadows, woodlands, thickets, and streambanks at elevations of 1,100 to 3,230 meters. Flowering from April to August, this grass produces delicate open branches with spreading to nodding spikelets 15 to 25 millimeters long. Growing 55 to 149 centimeters tall with hairy stems and nodes, it develops an open branching structure with spreading inflorescences. Its leaves are 4 to 12 millimeters wide, with upper stem blades that are hairy and a very short ligule measuring 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters. The lemmas are distinctive, with hairy margins along the lower half to three-quarters and small awns 2 to 6.5 millimeters long.
Habitat: Damp meadows, woodland, thickets, streambanks, roadsides
Bloom period: Apr-Aug
Elevation: 1100-3230 m
Bioregions: CaRH, SNH, SnBr, n W&I
California counties: Fresno, Inyo, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Tuolumne, Mendocino, Los Angeles, Nevada, Riverside, Madera, El Dorado, Alpine, Butte, Plumas, Yuba, Shasta, Placer, Lassen, Sierra, Humboldt, Siskiyou, Mariposa
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.