The Flora of Derbyshire - Checklist, Maps and Sample Accounts

THIS IS A DRAFT

The species account below is an early version, drafted around 2003. It has been provided here to aid understanding, but please be aware it may not fully tally with the up-to-date map and statistics shown below.

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Dates
First year: 1950
Latest year: 1975

County Status
Casual

Family
Poaceae

Total records held
12

Grid Square Count

1987-2007	Ever
Monads: 0	9
Tetrads: 0	9
Hectads: 0	11

Conservation Status

Account last edited
Jul 5 2004

Explanation of terms

Species Details

Slender Soft-brome is a very rare casual annual of waste ground, waysides and grasslands. There are no recent records and only a scatter of previous records from the third quarter of the last century (Friden SK1760, Ednaston SK2442, Johnnygate SK3275, Swarkstone Bridge SK3628 & Markland Grips SK5074). This decline is part of a national decrease since 1962 (Preston Xxet al. 2002). It was probably introduced as a contaminant of grass-seed mixes sown for agricultural grasslands, but where it was introduced from is uncertain.