Bromus madritensisL.

compact brome

WFO wfo-0000855936 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bromus madritensis, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. a Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-10 / obs. 198315248
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187617274
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. c Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166183237
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138429687
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 135539573
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Daniel Levitis
fig. f Daniel Levitis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127055792
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Amy
fig. g Amy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98594344
Bromus madritensis, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. h Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 67917226

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Native range 40 botanical countries

Regions where Bromus madritensis is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptEritreaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusEast Aegean Is.Gulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe AzoresCanary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Bromus madritensis, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
East Aegean Is. EAI
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 41 in flower of 82 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Bromus madritensis 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. 41 of 82 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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 67 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.

  • Anisantha madritensis (L.) Nevski
  • Anisantha madritensis subsp. tefedetica (Quézel) H.Scholz & Valdés
  • Anisantha madritensis var. ciliatus (Guss.) Tzvelev
  • Bromus arenaceus Pourr.
  • Bromus asperrimus Ten.
  • Bromus dardori Sennen
  • Bromus decipiens Cav.
  • Bromus diandrus Curtis
  • Bromus diandrus var. curtisii Bab.
  • Bromus diandrus var. madritensis (L.) DC.
  • Bromus diandrus var. polystachyus J.Woods
  • Bromus digitatus Poir. ex P.Beauv.
  • Bromus dilatatus Lam.
  • Bromus gynandrus Roth
  • Bromus madritensis f. persterilis Cugnac & A.Camus
  • Bromus madritensis f. umbrosus Hausskn.
  • Bromus madritensis subsp. eumadritensis Maire & Weiller
  • Bromus madritensis subsp. madritensis
  • Bromus madritensis subsp. tefedeticus Quézel
  • Bromus madritensis var. ambiguus Coss. & Durieu
  • Bromus madritensis var. ciliatus Guss.
  • Bromus madritensis var. curtisii Bab. ex Syme
  • Bromus madritensis var. diandrus Hook.f.
  • Bromus madritensis var. glabriculmis Maire & Weiller

and 43 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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