EPPO Global Database

• EPPO Code: BRCDI
• Preferred name: Brachypodium distachyon
• Authority: (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois

Mediterranean, Black Sea, Macaronesia, Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Asia, Himalayas, India, China (Tibet). Introduced in Japan, South Africa, USA (locally), Mexico, South America (Colombia to Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Australia (Western, South, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania). An annual species

WSSA list of weeds in North America, genome sequenced in 2010