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Brachypodium sylvaticum
Also called False broom, False Brome, Wood False Brome, Slender False Bromegrass
Slender false brome is a tufted perennial woodland grass, up to about 0.9 m tall, native across Europe, Asia and North Africa. It does best in shade or part shade on well-drained, neutral to chalky soil and dislikes wet ground.
Brachypodium sylvaticum, commonly known as false-brome, slender false brome or wood false brome, is a perennial grass native to Europe, Asia and Africa. Its native range includes most of Europe, northwestern Africa, Sudan and Eritrea, Western and Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Korea, Japan, Malesia, and New Guinea.
The bunchgrass is most commonly found in forests and woodlands, preferring the shaded canopy, but may grow in open areas. It prefers well drained neutral and calcerous soils, and avoids wet conditions.
Purple false brome · Brachypodium firmifolium · Brachypodium hybridum · Heath false brome · Mediterranean False Brome · False brome
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brachypodium sylvaticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
