Poaceae
Slender false brome
Brachypodium sylvaticum
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Brachypodium
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Common names
By language (25)
- Arabic
- دنبان حرجي
- arz
- دنبان حرجى
- Asturian
- Segón
- Belarusian
- Каратканожка лясная
- Bulgarian
- Горски късокрак
- Chinese
- 基隆短柄草, 小穎短柄草, 小颖短柄草, 短柄草, 吕宋短柄草
- Czech
- Válečka lesní
- Dutch
- Boskortsteel
- English
- Slender false brome, False broom, False brome
- Esperanto
- Arbara braĥipodio
- Estonian
- Mets-aruluste
- Finnish
- Varjoluste, Varjolehtoluste
- French
- Brachypode des bois
- German
- Wald-Zwenke, Waldzwenke, Wald-Fiederzwenke
- Hungarian
- Erdei szálkaperje
- Korean
- 숲개밀
- Latvian
- Meža īskāje
- Macedonian
- Шумска кусоношка
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Lundgrønnaks
- Persian
- چمنجاروی جنگلی
- Polish
- Kłosownica leśna
- Russian
- Коротконожка лесная
- Swedish
- Lundskafting
- Ukrainian
- Куцоніжка лісова
- Welsh
- Breichwellt y coed
Synonyms
- Agropyron nubigenum Nees ex Steud.
- Agropyron sylvaticum (Huds.) Chevall.
- Brachypodium gracile f. pubescens Peterm.
- Brachypodium pinnatum var. sylvaticum (Huds.) St.-Yves
- Brachypodium sylvaticum var. longiaristatum Hook.f.
- Brachypodium sylvaticum var. psedodistachyum Hook.f.
- Brachypodium sylvaticum var. sylvaticum
- Brevipodium sylvaticum (Huds.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Bromus pinnatus Oeder
- Bromus pinnatus var. sylvaticus (Huds.) Wahlenb.
- Bromus sylvaticus (Huds.) Pollich
- Bromus sylvaticus (Huds.) Lyons
- Festuca pinnata var. sylvatica (Huds.) Huds.
- Festuca sylvatica Huds.
- Triticum sylvaticum (Huds.) Moench
Flowers
- In flower
- June to July (from 90 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
FlowerPhoto: Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
FlowerPhoto: Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Pere prlpz assumed, CC BY-SA 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Ewen Cameron, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: zebedeugalinha, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist 
Photo: Stefan.lefnaer, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.