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A wild rye ear with awns Awns on the fruit of an Australian species of grass. In botany, an awn is either a hair- or bristle-like appendage on a larger structure, or in the case of the Asteraceae, a stiff needle-like element of the pappus.
Hordeum marinum, commonly known as sea barley or (subspecies gussoneanum) Mediterranean barley, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae that grows on bare ground on the shores of Europe and North Africa. It is also found in inland salt flats such as the Pannonian grasslands of Hungary, and it is widely established outside ...
Hordeum pusillum, also known as little barley, is an annual grass native to most of the United States and southwestern Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It arrived via multiple long-distance dispersals of a southern South American species of Hordeum about one million years ago. [ 3 ]
A stiff chitinous or sclerotised hair or bristle. Also chaeta, cheta setaceous. being like or having the nature of a seta or of setae; setose; setose bearing, or covered in setae. setula Diminutive of seta. A small chitinous hair or bristle. setulose bearing, or covered in setulae. shade see central shade spiracle
Barley is more tolerant of soil salinity than other cereals, varying in different cultivars. [48] It has less winter-hardiness than winter wheat and far less than rye. [49] Like other cereals, barley is typically planted on tilled land. Seed was traditionally scattered, but in developed countries is usually drilled. As it grows it requires soil ...
The stem of a plant, especially a woody one; also used to mean a rootstock, or particularly a basal stem structure or storage organ from which new growth arises. Compare lignotuber. caudiciform Stem-like or caudex-like; sometimes used to mean "pachycaul", meaning "thick-stemmed". caudicle diminutive of caudex.
Upper respiratory tract symptoms: Emerging evidence suggests that eating 100g of barley per day, instead of white rice, may help ease upper respiratory tract symptoms like congestion and sneezing.
Aristate (aristata) – ending in a stiff, bristle-like point. Bipinnate (bipinnata) – each leaflet also pinnate. Cordate (cordata) – heart-shaped, stem attaches to cleft. Cuneate (cuneata) – triangular, stem attaches to point. Deltoid (deltoidea) – triangular, stem attaches to side. Digitate (digitata) – divided into finger-like lobes.