''Bromus lanceolatus'', the Mediterranean brome, large-headed brome or lanceolate brome, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

. It is native to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Xinjiang in China, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A tetraploid, it does well in

disturbed habitat In ecology, a disturbance is a temporary change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem. Disturbances often act quickly and with great effect, to alter the physical structure or arrangement of biotic and abiotic ...

s and has been introduced to scattered locations in North America, South America, and central Europe.

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lanceolatus Flora of Southwestern Europe Flora of Southeastern Europe Flora of North Africa Flora of the Caucasus Flora of Western Asia Flora of the Gulf States Flora of Central Asia Flora of Pakistan Flora of Xinjiang Plants described in 1797 {{Pooideae-stub