Immature seed head. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Mature seed heads. Photo: Beatrice F. Howitt © California Academy of Sciences, California, USA

Ligule. Photo: Zoya Akulova, California, USA

Common Name

Red Brome

Family

Poaceae

Notes

Introduced annual grass 5-60cm tall.  Leaves with a hairy sheath at the base. Ligule a lacerated membrane without a fringe of hairs. Leaves flat, 1.7-12cm long, 2-6mm wide, hairless to hairy or rough, tapering to a point.  Spikelets purple or red, 6-30mm long excluding the awns.  Mature seed groups oval to short cylindrical to spreading. Seeds with one long awn, in groups of 3-8.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 70

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Bromus~rubens

ausgrass2 description and photos:  http://ausgrass2.myspecies.info/content/bromus-rubens