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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 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 ]
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains; it was domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikelets and making it much easier to harvest.
Three unripe ears (of barley, wheat, and rye): each has many awns (bristles) An ear is the grain-bearing tip part of the stem of a cereal plant, such as wheat or maize (corn). [1] It can also refer to "a prominent lobe in some leaves." [2] The ear is a spike, consisting of a central stem on which tightly packed rows of flowers grow.
Hordeum spontaneum, commonly known as wild barley or spontaneous barley, is the wild form of the grass in the family Poaceae that gave rise to the cereal barley (Hordeum vulgare). Domestication is thought to have occurred on two occasions, first about ten thousand years ago in the Fertile Crescent and again later, several thousand kilometres ...
Barley may not have the trendy allure of other whole grains like farro, but it has a lot to offer. With a diversity of micronutrients and a hearty amount of fiber, eating barley on a regular basis ...
Foxtail barley (Hordeum jubatum) propagates by seed.It is known for its ability to tolerate saline soils but is capable of productive growth on soil types ranging from loamy to clayey soils with pH's of 6.4 to 9.5.
Hordeum murinum ssp. leporinum, known as hare barley, [6] mouse barley, [7] and barley grass. [8] This subspecies grows in tufts from 10 to 40 cm (4 to 16 in) in height, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and its flowers are attached to branches rather than to the main axis.