Bromus latiglumis Shear.
Fringed Brome

Habit:		Perennial.
Culms: 		60-100 cm. high, very leafy, slightly pubescent at the 10-20 nodes or glabrous.
Blades: 	Leaf-blades 10-30 cm. long, 5-8- mm. wide, scabrous and sometimes sparingly hairy above, with
		prominent flanges on either side, these usually prolonged into auricles.
Sheaths: 	Overlapping, furnished at the summit with a pubescent ring, otherwise sparsely pubescent.
Ligule: 	Membranous.
Inflorescence: 	Panicle 10-30 cm. long, open, somewhat nodding.
Spikelets: 	2-3 cm. long, loosely 6-10-flowered.
Glumes: 	2, membranous, persistent, narrow, unequal.
Lemmas: 	About 1 cm. long, broadly lanceolate, pilose, densely so toward the base; awn 4-5 mm. long.
		(Differs from B. purgans in having broader and distinctly 7-nerved lemmas, the pubescence more silky
		and increasing in density toward the base.)
Palea: 		Shorter than the lemma, 2-keeled.
Fruit: 		Grain furrowed, adhering to the palea.
Habitat: 	Alluvial banks of streams. June-August.
Remarks: 	A form with densely canescent sheaths has been called Bromus incanus.  It grows in wooded hills in northeast fourth of Kansas.
Kansas Range:	northeast fourth of Kansas
Synonyms:	Bromus altissimus Pursh
		Bromus purgans auct. non L.