Little Barley
Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum Nutt.
Poaceae (Grass Family)
▲ ▼ mature plants
▲ ▼ mature plants (lower one showing more prostrate growth habit)
▲ colony of plants
▲ inflorescence
▲ stem bases
▲ collar and ligule region
Little Barley:
- Annual or cool-season annual of winter annual crops and pastures
- Grows 6" � 18" tall, light green slender, upright-growing, not hairy leaves
- Inflorescences is an spike with awned spikelets
- Awns can irritate livestock grazing on them; can be an indicator of overgrazing