Weed
little barley, little wildbarley
FascicleFascicle:
Much the same as a burr except the spikelet glumes are soft, e.g. buffelgrass.
SpikeletsSpikelet:
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.
, cluster of three
Light brown
Moderately rough on flat surface; glumeGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.
ends scabrousScabrous:
Rough to the touch, covered with minute points of very short, stiff hairs.
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Broadest in middle with straight taper to either end
Broad and flat
Two pedicellate, sterile spikeletsSpikelet:
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. on either side of fertile one
The unit disarticulates with a segment of the rachisRachis:
The central axis of an inflorescence.
. Two lateral spikeletsSpikelet:
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. are pedicellate and sterile, with glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it. wide in the middle and a rudimentary floretFloret:
A small flower in a clustered inflorescence (e.g., sunflower, grasses). In grasses, a floret consists of the lemma, palea, stamens, and pistil.
. The 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 sessileSessile:
A flower or spikelet with no pedicel therefore attached directly to the central axis (rachis) or other surfaces.
with wide glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it..
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Not included
Poaceae
Hordeum pusillum Nutt.
Critesion pusillum (Nutt.) Á. Löve
Hordeum pusillum Nutt. var. pubens Hitchc.
