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.