Achnatherum bromoides(L.) P.Beauv.

WFO wfo-0000841261 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-14 / obs. 78662053
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. b Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56884647
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. c Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59615536
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. d Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59175906
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. e Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83303271
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. f Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52123955
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. g Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52122712
Achnatherum bromoides, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. h Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 47747311

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3717163
Filed as
Achnatherum bromoides (L.) P.Beauv.
Det. by
Soreng, Robert J., Research Associate (BOT), Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History (UNITED STATES)
Collected
L. J. Gillespie, E. Cabi, R. J. Soreng & K. Boudko 2011-06-19
Origin
TR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Achnatherum bromoides is native: Morocco, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe MoroccoCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Sardegna
Native distribution of Achnatherum bromoides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Morocco MOR AFRICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 213 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -0.9 °C 0.7 °C 6.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.6 °C 26.8 °C 30.1 °C
Annual rainfall 626 mm 779 mm 1,151 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 3 mm 135 mm 176 mm

It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 213 research-grade observations of Achnatherum bromoides that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 9 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Achnatherum fallacinum H.Scholz & Raus
  • Agrostis bromoides L.
  • Agrostis stipata Koeler
  • Andropogon hermaphroditus Pourr.
  • Aristella bromoides (L.) Bertol.
  • Calamagrostis gracilis Seenus
  • Lasiagrostis bromoides (L.) Nevski & Roshev.
  • Stipa aristella L.
  • Stipa bromoides (L.) Dörfl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.