Bromus erectusHuds.

erect brome

WFO wfo-0000855493 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bromus erectus, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. a Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-31 / obs. 202528585
Bromus erectus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. b Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199558836
Bromus erectus, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. c Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202197345
Bromus erectus, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer
fig. d Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202221291
Bromus erectus, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. e Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199184443
Bromus erectus, photographed by Jon Mortin
fig. f Jon Mortin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194467712
Bromus erectus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. g Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150756563
Bromus erectus, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 136476698

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Bromus erectus is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaIranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSpainSwitzerland Sardegna
Native distribution of Bromus erectus, 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
Austria AUT
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Flowering 49 in flower of 88 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Bromus erectus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 49 of 88 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 138 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.

  • Bromofestuca cojocnensis Prodan
  • Bromofestuca cojocnensis Prodan
  • Bromopsis alexeenkoi (Tzvelev) Czerep.
  • Bromopsis aspera Fourr.
  • Bromopsis caprina (A.Kern. ex Hack.) Banfi & N.G.Passal.
  • Bromopsis erecta (Huds.) Fourr.
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. alexeenkoi (Tzvelev) Tzvelev
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. gordjaginii (Tzvelev) Tzvelev
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. longiflora (Willd. ex Spreng.) Dostál
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. microchaeta (Font Quer) H.Scholz & Valdés
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. permixta (H.Lindb.) H.Scholz & Valdés
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. stenophylla (Link) H.Scholz & Valdés
  • Bromopsis erecta subsp. transylvanicus (Steud.) H.Scholz & Valdés
  • Bromopsis gordjaginii (Tzvelev) Galushko
  • Bromopsis microchaeta (Font Quer) Holub
  • Bromopsis permixta (H.Lindb.) Holub
  • Bromopsis stenophylla (Link) Lazzeri
  • Bromopsis transylvanica (Steud.) Holub
  • Bromopsis zangezura Ogan.
  • Bromus agrestis All.
  • Bromus angustifolius Hornem.
  • Bromus angustifolius Schrank
  • Bromus arvensis Lam.
  • Bromus asper Pall. ex M.Bieb.

and 114 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.

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