Bromus pacificus |
Bromus laevipes |
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Pacific brome |
chinook brome, narrow flower brome, woodland brome |
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Habit | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. |
Culms | 60-170 cm, erect; nodes (5)6-8, pubescent; internodes usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent near the nodes. |
50-150 cm, erect or basally decumbent, often rooting from the lower nodes; nodes 3-5(6), pubescent; internodes usually glabrous, often puberulent-pubescent just below the nodes, rarely puberulent throughout. |
Sheaths | pilose, midrib of the culm leaves not abruptly narrowed just below the collar; auricles absent; ligules 2-4 mm, glabrous, truncate, erose or lacerate; blades 20-35(37) mm long, 6-16 mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces pilose. |
glabrous, sometimes slightly pubescent near the throat, sometimes with hairs in the auricular position; auricles absent or vestigial on the basal leaves; ligules 2-4.2 mm, glabrous, obtuse, lacerate; blades 13-26 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, light green or glaucous, flat, glabrous, sometimes scabrous on both surfaces. |
Panicles | 10-25 cm, open, nodding; branches ascending, spreading, or drooping. |
10-20 cm, open, nodding; branches ascending to spreading, often drooping. |
Spikelets | 20-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with (4)6-10 florets. |
23-35 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 5-11 florets. |
Glumes | pubescent; lower glumes 6-8.5 mm, 1(3)-veined; upper glumes 8-11.5 mm, 3-veined, not mucronate; lemmas 10-12 mm, lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs pubescent, margins more densely so, apices acute, entire; awns 3.5-7 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 2-4 mm. |
glabrous, sometimes scabrous, margins often bronze-tinged; lower glumes 6-9 mm, 3-veined; upper glumes 8-12 mm, 5-veined; lemmas 12-16 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs sparsely pilose, pubescent, or scabrous, margins densely pilose, at least on the lower 1/2, often bronze-tinged, apices acute to obtuse, entire, rarely slightly emarginate, lobes shorter than 1 mm; awns 4-6 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 3.5-5 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
= 14. |
Bromus pacificus |
Bromus laevipes |
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Distribution |
AK; OR; WA; BC
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CA; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | Bromus pacificus grows in moist thickets, openings, and ravines along the Pacific coast from southeastern Alaska to northern California, with a few occurrences further inland. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Bromus laevipes grows from northern Oregon to southern California. It grows in shaded woodlands and on exposed brushy slopes, at 300-1500 m. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 218. | FNA vol. 24, p. 209. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Bromeae > Bromus > sect. Bromopsis | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Bromeae > Bromus > sect. Bromopsis |
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Synonyms | Bromopsis pacifica | |
Name authority | Shear | Shear |
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