Skye Flora

Hairy Brome


Bromopsis ramosa

Formerly Bromus ramosus

Bromus ramosus

Photo © Carl Farmer
18 Aug 2002 Portree

Occasional in bare shady ground or woodland edge.

Stems to 150 cm tall.  Spikelets 20-30 mm long.

Skye ID: As in picture.  Panicle branches again branched, unlike those of Barren Brome.

Other features: Tall spacious drooping plant.  Panicle branches in pairs, the lower with a hairy scale at base.  Spikelets often purplish, with up to 11 awned florets.  Leaf-sheaths have long downward-pointing hairs.

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Bromus ramosus

Photo © Carl Farmer
18 Aug 2002 Portree

 

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