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Bayer Code : hormu

Scientific name: Hordeum murinum L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: wall barley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Mäuse-Gerste ; ES : cebadilla silvestre ; FR : orge des lièvres ; IT : orzo selvatico ; PT : cevada-dos-ratos ; EN : wall barley ; NL : kruipertje ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Shoot rolled, leaf sheath terete.

- Leaf blade 20-50 times longer than broad, leaf more or less hairy.

- Ligule membranous, truncate, intersected auricles.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50 cm. Plant tufted, hairy.

- Stem geniculate ascending, leafy near the tip.

- Leaves flat, rough, pilose. Leaf sheath glabrous.

- Inflorescence : one-flowered spikelets ; 3 in a big subglobose spike : one central spikelet hermaphrodite, fertile, sessile and 2 lateral male or sterile short-pediceled spikelets. Lower glumes ending into a very long awn. Floral-glumes with 5 rough apex veins, lanceolate, rounded on the back. The 3 spikelets are falling together.

- Biological type: Annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Rare     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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