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Soft Brome

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Scientific Name:Bromus hordeaceus (syn. Bromus mollis)
Soft Brome plants
Soft Brome plants
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to Europe. Naturalised across Australia.

Plant Description:

A slender, annual grass to 80 cm tall. Leaves are softly hairs; blades are flat to 12 cm long and 6 mm wide.

Flower-head is a rather dense, narrowly ovate, erect, panicle to 10 cm long. The plump spikelets are 12-18 mm long and contain 4-8 florets. The outer glumes are 4.5-8 mm long. The lemma (larger of the inner flowering bracts) is 7.5-10 mm long and has a straight awn or bristle, 4-11 mm long.

Habitat:
A common and widespread weed of pastures, crops, roadsides and waste ground but also encroaches on wetlands and the higher parts of saline flats.

Comments:
There are about 12 species of Brome-grasses found in Victoria, all but one being introduced exotics. Other common species include Great Brome (Bromus diandrus) and Red Brome (B. rubens).

Soft Brome

Young flowerheads of Soft Brome
Young flower-heads of Soft Brome
Photo: A J Bronw
Mature flowerheads of Soft Brome
Mature flower-heads of Soft Brome
Photo: A J Brown

Spikelets of Soft Brome with excerted anthers
Spikelets of Soft Brome with exserted anthers
Photo: A J Brown

Spikelet awns of Soft Brome
Spikelet awns of Soft Brome
Photo: A J Brown

Soft Brome plants
Mature flower-heads of Soft Brome
Photo: A J Brown

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