A fairly tall grass with spiked flowers and awns, we don't see this at all in Cheshire as it is mostly found in Central and Eastern England on calcareous grassland. There is very little in either Scotland or Wales. It has shorter awns than B. sylvaticum (False Brome) and is almost completely hairless.

LHS: Near River Tyne 3rd July 2005 RHS: Bonsai Bank, Kent 2nd June 2007

Added on October 13th 2005, updated 4th November 2008, updated 5th March 2010, updated 28th July 2013