Awnless Brome (Bromus inermis Leyss.)
Also known as smooth brome, smooth bromegrass, Austrian bromegrass, Hungarian brome, Hungarian bromegrass, Russian bromegrass.
↑Range - Expand
| Legend | Color |
| Introduced | |
| Introduced or Not Present |
This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.
Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.
↑Notes
We prefer the name "awnless brome" because it is unambiguous, descriptive (this species often has no awns, and when it does have awns they are much shorter than most bromes), and also is a loose non-translation of the scientific epithet inermis, which more literally translates as "unarmed", but refers similarly to the lack of awns. We recommend against the use of the common name "smooth brome"; although it more frequently refers to this species, it also is used to refer to bald brome (Bromus racemosus). Similarly, the common names which use terms "Austrian", "Hungarian", and "Russian", although accurate in a loose sense because this species is native to all three countries, are a bit limited because they only reference part of this species' relatively broad native range, and say nothing else about it.
↑Links & External Resources
• Smooth Brome | Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis (Smooth Brome) | Illinois Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis (smooth brome) | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis | Go Botany (About This Site)
• Smooth Brome | iNaturalist (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis (Awnless brome) | CABI Invasive Species Compendium (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis | Flora of North America (About This Site)
• Smooth Brome | Maryland Biodiversity Project (About This Site)
• Bromus inermis Leyss. (Awnless Brome Grass, Smooth Brome) | Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora (About This Site)
