Bromus arvensisL.

field brome

WFO wfo-0000855198 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Bromus arvensis, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. a Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-26 / obs. 69618585
Bromus arvensis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44123591
Bromus arvensis, photographed by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe
fig. c Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8473144
Bromus arvensis, photographed by C.
fig. d C., CC0 1.0 / obs. 7931937
Bromus arvensis, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. e Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69618630
Bromus arvensis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44123604
Bromus arvensis, photographed by Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe
fig. g Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8473146
Bromus arvensis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. h Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150447797

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Bromus arvensis is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine CyprusEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Bromus arvensis, 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
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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.

Also published as 68 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.

  • Avena arvensis (L.) Salisb.
  • Bromus arvensis f. compactus (Asch. & Graebn.) Todor
  • Bromus arvensis f. degener (Schur) Todor
  • Bromus arvensis f. diffusus Todor
  • Bromus arvensis f. flavescens Holmb.
  • Bromus arvensis f. puberulus H.Lindb.
  • Bromus arvensis f. umbrosus Hausskn.
  • Bromus arvensis f. violaceus (Asch. & Graebn.) Todor
  • Bromus arvensis subsp. hyalinus (Schur) Domin
  • Bromus arvensis subsp. parviflorus (Desf.) H.Scholz
  • Bromus arvensis subsp. segetalis H.Scholz
  • Bromus arvensis subvar. depauperatus Coss. & Germ.
  • Bromus arvensis unranked splendens (Velen.) Velen.
  • Bromus arvensis var. compactus Asch. & Graebn.
  • Bromus arvensis var. degener Schur
  • Bromus arvensis var. degeneri Schur
  • Bromus arvensis var. depauperatus Coss. & Germ.
  • Bromus arvensis var. diffusus (Neilr.) Todor
  • Bromus arvensis var. diffusus Neilr.
  • Bromus arvensis var. diffusus Schur
  • Bromus arvensis var. fragilis Schur
  • Bromus arvensis var. giganteus Zapał.
  • Bromus arvensis var. hyalinus (Schur) Schur
  • Bromus arvensis var. inermis Schumach.

and 44 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.