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Hordeum brachyantherum
meadow barley
Specimens
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Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east to the Rocky Mountains.

Habitat: Ocean beaches to mountain meadows,usually where moist, but also from dry sagebrush desert to rocky ridges.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Wind

Description:
General:

Tufted perennial, the culms 4-8 dm. tall.

Leaves:

Sheaths open, glabrous to finely pubescent; auricles none; ligules 0.5 mm. long with marginal hairs; blades 2-6 mm. broad.

Flowers:

Inflorescence a terminal spike, usually erect, 5-10 cm. long; spikelets 3 per node, 1-flowered, the central spikelet sessile, the lateral spikelets with a curved pedicle 1 mm. long; glumes slender and awn-like, 7-12 mm. long; lemmas rounded on the back, 5-nerved, the one on the central floret with an awn exceeding the glumes; lateral florets reduced, sometimes staminate.

Accepted Name:
Hordeum brachyantherum Nevski
Publication: Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 2: 61. 1936.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
Critesion brachyantherum (Nevski) Barkworth & D.R. Dewey
Hordeum nodosum L.
Infraspecies:
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Hordeum brachyantherum in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Hordeum brachyantherum checklist entry

OregonFlora: Hordeum brachyantherum information

E-Flora BC: Hordeum brachyantherum atlas page

CalPhotos: Hordeum brachyantherum photos

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