E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of BC

Hordeum brachyantherum Nevski subsp. brachyantherum
meadow barley
Poaceae (Grass family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

Photograph

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Map

Distribution of Hordeum brachyantherum subsp. brachyantherum
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Species Information

General:
Perennial, tufted grass from fibrous roots; stems (20) 40-80 (100) cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths open, smooth to finely more or less appressed-hairy or spreading hairy; blades smooth to finely more or less appressed-hairy or spreading hairy, 2-6 (9) mm wide; ear-shaped lobes at the leaf-bases lacking; ligules more or less fringed with fine hairs, barely 0.5 mm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence an erect spike, 5-10 cm long, longer than wide; central spikelets unstalked, the lateral ones short-stalked, the stalks curved, stiff-hairy, about 1 mm long; glumes all slender, awnlike, 7-12 (20) mm long; central florets usually with awns exceeding the glumes, the lateral florets mostly sterile, often awnlike, but sometimes with all male flowers; lemma awns 5-10 (20) mm long; anthers 1-1.5 mm long.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Illustration

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Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Habitat and Range

Tidal marshes and moist to mesic saline meadows, sandy beaches and rocky bluffs in the lowland zone and mesic meadows and forest openings in the montane zone; common in coastal BC, infrequent elsewhere in BC north to 55 degrees N; N to AK and YT, E to SK and disjunctly E to NF and S to ME, NH, PA, IN, TX, NM, AZ and CA.

Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Status Information

Origin Status	Provincial Status	BC List (Red Blue List)	COSEWIC
Native	S5	Yellow	Not Listed

BC Ministry of Environment: BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer.

Synonyms

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Critesion brachyantherum (Nevski) Barkworth & D.R. Dewey
Critesion jubatum subsp. breviaristatum (Bowden) A.& D. L÷ve
Hordeum boreale Scribn. & J.G. Sm.
Hordeum jubatum subsp. breviaristatum Bowden
Hordeum jubatum var. boreale (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Boivin
Hordeum jubatum var. breviaristatum
Hordeum nodosum L. p.p.
Hordeum nodosum var. boreale (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) A.S. Hitchc.