Bromus kalmii was first described and published in A Manual of the botany of the Northern United States: from New England to Wisconsin and south to Ohio and Pennsylvania inclusive, (the mosses and liverworts by Wm. S. Sullivant,) arranged according to the natural system. 1st Edition. 600. 1848. Boston; London. The synonym Bromopsis kalmii was published in Folia Geobotanica & Phytotaxonomica 8: 167. 1973. Prague. "Bromus kalmii". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
