Description: Soft brome is a rather variable annual or biennial plant, from about four inches to three feet tall, producing fat egg-shaped spikelets of flowers at the ends of the panicle branches; rather soft to the touch. It can be found in a wide variety of habitats including meadows, stone walls, waste ground, roadside verges etc. in lowland situations.

An alternative name found in older books is Bromus mollis.

All names: Bromus hordeaceus L.; Bromus hordeaceus sens. lat. L.; Bromus mollis L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Bromus hordeaceus at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Bromus hordeaceus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.