Weed
California barley
SpikeletSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.
Triangular
Brown
Smooth
ApicalApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
end has a long awnAwn:
A narrow, bristle-like organ, as on the glumes or lemmas of grasses (Poaceae).
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Visible with margins close together
Central fertile floretFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil.
is large, but lateral sterile floretsFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil. are small.
Each floretFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil. is subtended by two linear glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
. Lateral sterile floretsFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil. have a 1 mm rachis.
Not listed
Not included
Poaceae
Hordeum brachyantherum subsp. californicum (Covas & Stebbins) Bothmer, N. Jacobsen & Seberg
Critesion californicum (Covas & Stebbins) N. Jacobsen & Seberg
Hordeum californicum Covas & Stebbins
