Bromus nottowayanus

Fernald
Common names: Virginia brome
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 216.
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Illustrator: Cindy Roché

Copyright: Utah State University

Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. Culms (60) 70-140 cm, erect or spreading; nodes 5-9, pubescent or glabrous, often concealed by the sheaths; internodes usually glabrous. Sheaths usually retrorsely pilose, some¬times glabrous, with a dense line of hairs at the collar, lower sheaths often sericeous; auricles absent; ligules 0.4-1 mm, often hairy, truncate, erose, ciliolate; blades 15-30 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, often shiny yellow-green, flat, abaxial surfaces pilose, adaxial surfaces glabrous or pilose over the veins. Panicles 9-25 cm, open, nodding; branches ascending or spreading, often recurved. Spikelets 18-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, often purplish, with 6-12 florets. Glumes usually pubescent; lower glumes 5.5-8 mm, 1 (3) -veined; upper glumes 7-10 mm, 5-veined, often mucronate; lemmas 8-13 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, usually uniformly densely hairy, or the backs less densely so, apices acute to obtuse, entire; awns 5-8 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 2.8-3.5 (5) mm. 2n = 14.

Distribution

Kans., Tenn., Md., Mich., Mo., N.C., Ga., Iowa, Ala., Ark., Ind., N.J., Okla., Tex., N.Y., Va., Ill., Ont., Ky., Ohio

Discussion

Bromus nottowayanus is native to the east-central and eastern United States from Iowa to New York, south to Oklahoma, northern Alabama, and Virginia. It grows in damp, shaded woods, often in ravines and along streams.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Bromus nottowayanus"
membranous +  and scarious +
pilose +  and glabrous +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (?) +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
acute +  and obtuse +
Leon E. Pavlickf +
Fernald +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
straight +
distinct +
subterminal +  and terminal +
geniculate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
yellow-green +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
not evident +
cross +, linear +  and narrowly lanceolate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
recurved;spreading;ascending +
spikelike +
Virginia brome +
not branching +
spreading +  and erect +
70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br /> (140 cm1,400 mm <br />1.4 m <br />) +
not woody +
Kans. +, Tenn. +, Md. +, Mich. +, Mo. +, N.C. +, Ga. +, Iowa +, Ala. +, Ark. +, Ind. +, N.J. +, Okla. +, Tex. +, N.Y. +, Va. +, Ill. +, Ont. +, Ky. +  and Ohio +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
6 +  and 12 +
terete +  and laterally compressed +
1-9(11)-veined +
always shorter +  and usually shorter +
lanceolate +
subtending +
mucronate +  and acute +
unequal +
uncinate +
solid +  and hollow +
rounded +, elliptic +  and lanceolate +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
herbaceous +  and coriaceous +
ciliolate +  and hairy +
lacerate +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
fleshy +  and membranous +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
5 +  and 9 +
2 +  and 1 +
hairy +  and glabrous +
well-developed +
reduced +
9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
sericeous +, glabrous +  and pilose +
1 +  and 60 +
not viviparous +
elliptic +  and lanceolate terete +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Bromus nottowayanus +
Bromus sect. Bromopsis +
species +
membranous +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +