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|accepted_name=Bromus erectus
|accepted_authority=Huds.
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|common_names=Meadow brome;Upright brome;Brome dresse
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Bromeae;Bromus;Bromus sect. Bromopsis;Bromus erectus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Bromeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bromus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Bromus sect. Bromopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bromus erectus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 218
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 50-100 cm, erect; nodes (1)2-3, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent; internodes usually glabrous, rarely pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pilose; auricles absent; ligules to 1.5 mm, glabrous, truncate, lacerate; blades 10-20 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, often involute or folded, glabrous or sparingly hairy. <b>Panicles</b> 10-20 cm, erect, contracted; branches erect or ascending. <b>Spikelets</b> 15-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 5-8(12) florets. <b>Glumes</b> glabrous; lower glumes 7-9 mm, 1-veined; upper glumes 9-11 mm, 3-veined; lemmas 10-13(15) mm, lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs and margins glabrous or sparsely pubescent, apices subulate to acute, entire; awns 5-7 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 4-6.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 56.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;Oreg.;Wis.;Mass.;Wash.;Ohio;W.Va.;N.Dak.;Calif.;Mich.;D.C.;Ill.;Ala.;N.Y.;Va.;Conn.;Vt.;Alta.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ky.;Idaho
|discussion=<p><i>Bromus erectus</i> is native to Europe. In the Flora region, it grows on disturbed soils, often over limestone. It is established in the eastern United States and Canada, and has been reported from other locations where it has not persisted.</p>
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name=Bromus erectus
|authority=Huds.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Maine;Oreg.;Wis.;Mass.;Wash.;Ohio;W.Va.;N.Dak.;Calif.;Mich.;D.C.;Ill.;Ala.;N.Y.;Va.;Conn.;Vt.;Alta.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ky.;Idaho
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Bromeae
|genus=Bromus
|section=Bromus sect. Bromopsis
|species=Bromus erectus
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