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Rye brome
Bromus secalinus
Auricles
Absent.
Description
Annual or biennial 20-120 cm, loosely tufted or solitary. Flower head is an erect panicle, which droops or nods later. Spikelets are oval, many flowered and 1.2-2.4 cm long with short awns.
Leaf blade
Green, rough and loosely hairy. It is also long, pointed, and twisted.
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![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/7i0OdMjGtP3OVHNRq2K6ON/a916fd1859afd4090dc45836e488f72e/rye_brome-_02.jpg?fm=webp&w=640&q=85)
![Rye brome - young plant](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/3MuqYTHK8pve2UA6JV6ycw/2d2eb4a3129ad79b1c52675ab88e6781/rye-brome-young.jpg?fm=webp&w=750&q=85)
Rye brome - young plant
![Rye brome flower heads](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/3CJDUOiJoBXk8qIaPkDIY0/0f7be46bd341292a188ebe9dc4224353/rye-brome-mature.jpg?fm=webp&w=750&q=85)
Rye brome flower heads
Importance
Increasingly an arable problem spreading from field margins. Mainly in eastern England.
Ligule
![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/5763S8M9Ky3vIIjMFT6ngA/870841afcdf6baf31e04b0b0126254f0/rye_brome-_01.jpg?fm=webp&w=3840&q=85)
Short: 1 - 2 mm. Toothed
![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/2cyjNdilRAZQmDkqCZn9B6/708c37c62c86c56984d05d394fd52d60/rye-meadow-brome-3.jpeg?fm=webp&w=1920&q=85)
On the left is rye brome (note the oval spikelet) and on the right is meadow brome (note the oblong spikelet)
![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/2UacnSvRFwCvVRXrb2TAWG/a5a1f03798e3937e69b496bd1563b68b/rye-brome-1-l.jpg?fm=webp&w=1920&q=85)
Rye brome flower heads. © Blackthorn Arable.
![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/PeHrMgw76wAPreX851to8/3dc5bb6d3b7a0772fb860cc79cb8d5f4/rye-brome-2-d.jpg?fm=webp&w=1920&q=85)
Rye brome flower heads. © Blackthorn Arable.
![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/5qmenTAoGFSu9SCxZy8nlk/403a79b98599f202d2d8799b6e148f95/rye-brome-3-d.jpg?fm=webp&w=1920&q=85)
Rye brome ligule. © Blackthorn Arable.
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![](https://images.ctfassets.net/l2hapltrg3cz/3CvKagUshwoSyxEDqRj52c/bd6e3be09e808d22cf4c4c324b6d4ac7/FieldMate_Promo_Desktop.jpg?fm=webp&w=3840&q=85)
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