Bromus rubens

Slender or sometimes tufted annual, culms erect or geniculate, generally shortly pubescent below the inflorescence, to 40 cm high (rarely more). Leaves softly hairy; blade flat, to 20 cm long and 5 mm wide; ligule glabrous, toothed to deeply laciniate, 1–3 mm long. Inflorescence a dense ovoid to obovoid panicle, to 8 cm long (excluding awns), branches and pedicels erect, not or very rarely longer than 1 cm and mostly 1–4 mm. Spikelets 4–8-flowered, glabrous or hairy, narrowly oblong, 12–20 mm long (excluding awns), florets closely overlapping, remaining erect; lower glume 1-nerved, 5–8 mm long, upper glume 3-nerved, 8–12 mm long; lemma 10–14 mm long, excluding awn, dorsally rounded or almost flat, notched at apex to 4 mm deep; awn 8–12 mm long, inserted 3–5 mm below lemma apex, remaining straight or recurving slightly at maturity. Flowers Jul.–Nov.