Bromus rubensL.

red brome

WFO wfo-0000856381 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Bromus rubens, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. a Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 192952197
Bromus rubens, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. b James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 191397358
Bromus rubens, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. c James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 191392461
Bromus rubens, photographed by Jim Gale
fig. d Jim Gale, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189981350
Bromus rubens, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. e Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187426096
Bromus rubens, photographed by Elly Poretsky
fig. f Elly Poretsky, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187201196
Bromus rubens, photographed by Robbie Hannawacker
fig. g Robbie Hannawacker, CC0 1.0 / obs. 187268266
Bromus rubens, photographed by Bobby McCabe
fig. h Bobby McCabe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 180635835

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Bromus rubens is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Chad, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Sinai, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaChadEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaAfghanistanCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineSinaiTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Bromus rubens, 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
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA

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 104 in flower of 343 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Bromus rubens 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. 104 of 343 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 33 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 rubens (L.) Nevski
  • Anisantha rubens subsp. kunkelii (H.Scholz) H.Scholz
  • Anisantha rubens var. caucasica (Hack.) Tzvelev
  • Anisantha rubens var. glabriglumis (Maire) Tzvelev
  • Bromus canescens Viv.
  • Bromus coloratus Lojac.
  • Bromus kerkeranus Sennen & Mauricio
  • Bromus kunkelii (H.Scholz) H.Scholz
  • Bromus madritensis subsp. kunkelii H.Scholz
  • Bromus madritensis subsp. rubens (L.) Husn.
  • Bromus madritensis var. caucasicus Hack.
  • Bromus madritensis var. purpurascens (Delile) Post
  • Bromus madritensis var. rubens (L.) Husn.
  • Bromus matritensis var. purpurascens (Delile) Post
  • Bromus ponderosus Lojac.
  • Bromus purpurascens Delile
  • Bromus rigidus Rchb.
  • Bromus rubens f. canescens (Viv.) Coss.
  • Bromus rubens f. intermedius Pamp.
  • Bromus rubens subsp. eurubens Maire
  • Bromus rubens var. ambiguus Maire
  • Bromus rubens var. borosii Pénzes
  • Bromus rubens var. canescens Coss. ex Bég. & Vacc.
  • Bromus rubens var. fallax Maire

and 9 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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