Hordeum murinum subsp. glaucum

Species category

Weed

Common name

smooth barley

Diagnostic characters

Planting unit

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.

Shape

Triangular

Size

  • Length 13–15 mm
  • Width 3–4 mm
  • Thickness 1.5–2 mm

Color

Brown

Texture

Smooth with longitudinal ribs

Lemma

ApicalApical:
The distal end of the fruit or seed away from the point of attachment or attachment scar.
end has long awnAwn:
A narrow, bristle-like organ, as on the glumes or lemmas of grasses (Poaceae).
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Palea

Visible with margins close together

Other structures

Fertile and 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.
about the same length

Identification notes

GlumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
flat and wider in the middle; glumes pubescent.

Noxious weed seed categories

Not listed

AOSA examination list

Not included

Nomenclature

Family

Poaceae

Valid name

Hordeum murinum subsp. glaucum (Steud.) Tzvelev

Synonyms

Critesion glaucum (Steud.) Á. Löve
Critesion murinum (L.) Á. Löve ssp. glaucum (Steud.) W.A. Weber
Hordeum glaucum Steud.
Hordeum stebbinsii Covas

 Hordeum murinum  ssp.  glaucum.  Spikelets with pubescent glumes.
Hordeum murinum ssp. glaucum. Spikelets with pubescent glumes.