Bromus alopecuros
Poir.Annual, culms erect or geniculate near base, to 70 cm high. At least the lower leaves softly hairy, hairs on lower sheath often decurved; blade flat, to 20 cm long and 4 mm wide; ligule ciliate on abaxial surface, toothed, 0.5–2 mm long. Inflorescence a contracted cylindric to narrowly ovoid panicle 4–12 cm long with erect branches shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets sparsely to moderately hairy, 8–16-flowered, flattened, oblong to lanceolate, 15–40 mm long (excluding awns); lower glume 3-nerved, 5–9 mm long, upper glume 7-nerved, 8–12 mm long; lemma 10–18 mm long, with an apical notch to 3 mm deep, 7-nerved; awn 8–15 mm long, conspicuously flattened, twisting near base and spreading toward maturity, inserted 3–6 mm below lemma apex. Flowers Oct.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGU, HSF. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. An occasional weed of crops, pasture and roadsides, mostly in drier parts of the State.
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
