Bromus pubescens

Muhl. ex Willd.
Common names: Canada brome
Endemic
Synonyms: Bromus purgans var. laeviglumis Bromus ciliatus var. laeviglumis Bromopsis pubescens
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 220.
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Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. Culms 65-120(150) cm, erect; nodes (3)5-7(9), usually pubescent, sometimes glabrous; internodes pubescent or glabrous. Sheaths retrorsely pilose, midrib of the culm leaves not abruptly narrowed just below the collar, collars hairy or glabrous; auricles absent; ligules 0.5-2 mm, glabrous, obtuse to truncate, erose; blades 12-32 cm long, 6-15(19) mm wide, flat, 1 or both surfaces glabrous or hairy. Panicles 10-25 cm, open, usually nodding; branches usually spreading, sometimes ascending, often drooping. Spikelets (13)15-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with (4)5-10(13) florets. Glumes usually pubescent, rarely glabrous; lower glumes 4-8 mm, 1-veined; upper glumes 5-10 mm, 3(5)-veined, not mucronate; lemmas 8-12 mm, lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs and margins usually hairy, sometimes glabrous or scabrous, apices subulate to acute, entire; awns (3)4-7(8) mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 2-4(5) mm. 2n = 14.

Distribution

Conn., N.J., N.Y., W.Va., Del., Wis., Iowa, Fla., Wyo., N.H., Tex., La., Tenn., Pa., R.I., Va., Colo., Ala., Kans., N.Dak., Nebr., Okla., S.Dak., Ind., Miss., N.C., Ark., Vt., Ill., Ga., Man., Ont., Que., Maine, Md., Mass., Ohio, Mo., Minn., Mich., S.C., Ky.

Discussion

Bromus pubescens grows in shaded, moist, often upland deciduous woods. Its range is centered in the eastern half of the United States, and extends northward to southern Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec, westward in scattered locations to Arizona, and southward to eastern Texas and western Florida.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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Canada brome +
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Bromus purgans var. laeviglumis +, Bromus ciliatus var. laeviglumis +  and Bromopsis pubescens +
Bromus pubescens +
Bromus sect. Bromopsis +
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