Corn brome

Bromus squarrosus

Family: Poaceae Genus: Bromus Species: squarrosus

Synonyms: Bromus squarrosus var. dasystachys, Bromus squarrosus var. gomboczii, Bromus squarrosus var. multiflorus, Bromus stribrnyi, Bromus squarrosus var. nanus, Bromus squarrosus subvar. villosus, Bromus squarrosus var. typicus, Bromus squarrosus var. pubescens, Serrafalcus squarrosus var. parviflorus, Bromus squarrosus var. paniculatus, Bromus squarrosus f. pauciflorus, Bromus squarrosus var. inermedius, Bromus squarrosus var. australis, Bromus balsiensis, Bromus squarrosus subsp. typicus, Serrafalcus squarrosus var. minor, Bromus squarrosus subsp. danubialis, Bromus squarrosus var. danthoniae, Bromus squarrosus subsp. briziformis, Bromus squarrosus subsp. consimilis, Bromus patulus var. squarrosus, Serrafalcus squarrosus var. macrostachys, Bromus squarrosus subsp. noeanus, Serrafalcus squarrosus var. villosus, Bromus squarrosus var. minor, Bromus squarrosus var. normalis, Bromus squarrosus var. uberrimus, Bromus squarrosus var. exilis, Bromus squarrosus subsp. villosus, Bromus japonicus var. paniculatus, Bromus squarrosus f. nanus, Bromus squarrosus f. uberrimus, Serrafalcus squarrosus var. australis, Bromus squarrosus var. grandistachys, Bromus squarrosus f. grandistachys, Bromus littoralis, Serrafalcus mollissimus, Bromus squarrosus var. parviflorus, Forasaccus squarrosus, Bromus noeanus, Bromus squarrosus var. velutinus, Bromus volgensis, Bromus squarrosus var. balsiensis, Bromus valdefissus, Bromus squarrosus var. simplex, Bromus squarrosus var. puberulus, Bromus hirsutus, Bromus squarrosus var. villosus, Bromus wolgensis, Serrafalcus squarrosus, Serrafalcus squarrosus subsp. villosus, Bromus squarrosus var. megastachys, Bromus squarrosus var. megastachyus, Bromus megastachys, Bromus squarrosus var. coloratus, Bromus squarrosus subsp. australis, Bromus briziformis, Bromus squarrosus var. wolgensis, Bromus coloratus

Corn brome (en)

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Botanical Description

Bromus squarrosus, commonly known as corn brome or rough brome, is an annual grass of the Poaceae with hollow culms growing 20–60 cm tall and bearing four to five cauline leaves. The leaf blades are 5–15 cm long and 4–6 mm wide, usually softly hairy, with prominent ragged ligules 1–1.5 mm long, and the sheaths are pubescent. Flowering in June and July it produces a unilateral, lax panicle 7–20 cm long with branches longer than the spikelets; the lanceolate spikelets become broadly ovate at maturity and contain 10–20 florets, each lemma bearing a distinctively twisted, strongly divergent (squarrose) awn 6–10 mm long that gives the species its name. Native to southern Europe and central Russia, it is naturalised across southern Canada and the northern United States, typically in overgrazed pastures and roadside verges on loamy or alluvial soils.

Native Region: Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East European Russia, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Morocco, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Palestine, Romania, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

226051

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