The open panicles resemble oats with long often compressed spikelets containing 1 2 inch long awns.
Ripgut brome awns.
It is considered a serious weed of crops in some areas.
Bodies are 20 35 mm long and awns are greater than 10 mm.
Description ripgut brome is a loosely cespitose or tufted annual cool season bunchgrass.
Within new england it has been collected only near seaports in massachusetts.
The spikelets have longer awns than most brome grasses.
Ripgut brome seedlings have a tubular sheath.
1st glume is 1 veined.
Ripgut brome reproduces by seed.
Ripgut brome bromus diandrus exotic and undesirable lemmas taper into 2 narrow teeth.
Large spikelets with needlelike awns 1 to 2 inches 2 5 5 cm long distinguishes ripgut brome from the much shorter awns of soft brome.
Soft hairs cover the leaf blades and sheaths.
Soft brome bromus hordeaceus.
Ripgut brome is an annual brome native to europe northern africa and western asia and very widely introduced elsewhere in the world including in north america.
Related or similar plants.
The individual flowers have tiny rough teeth that can injure livestock and pets.
However it has an extensive fibrous root system and tillers profusely.
Cheatgrass bromus tectorum exotic undesirable and state regulated seedlings have very hairy blades and sheaths.
The ligule is long whitish and has a jagged tip.
It does not have creeping stolons or rhizomes.
The common name ripgut brome refers to the heavy sclerotization of the species creating a hazard to livestock.