Rye brome
Bromus secalinus
Auricles
Absent.
Description
Annual or biennial 20-120 cm, loosely tufted or solitary. Flower head is an erect panicle, which droops or nods later. Spikelets are oval, many flowered and 1.2-2.4 cm long with short awns.
Leaf blade
Green, rough and loosely hairy. It is also long, pointed, and twisted.
Importance
Increasingly an arable problem spreading from field margins. Mainly in eastern England.
Ligule
Short: 1 - 2 mm. Toothed
