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

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