Hordeum brachyantherum Nevski
Meadow Barley
Poaceae (Grass family)

Introduction to Vascular Plants

Photograph

© Curtis Bjork     (Photo ID #15972)

Map

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Distribution of Hordeum brachyantherum
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SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC

Hordeum brachyantherum ssp. brachyantherum

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

USDA Species Characteristics

Flower Colour:
Yellow
Blooming Period:
Early Summer
Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present from Summer to Fall
Source:  The USDA

Ecology

Ecological Framework for Hordeum brachyantherum

The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)

Site Information
 Value / Class

Avg

Min

Max
Elevation (metres)
 117 0 1280
Slope Gradient (%)
 2 0 40

Aspect (degrees)
[0 - N; 90 - E; 180 - S; 270 - W]

 291 90 360
Soil Moisture Regime (SMR)
[0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic;
8 - hydric] 		5 1 8
Modal Nutrient Regime
Class
 D
# of field plots
 species was recorded in:
 62
Modal BEC Zone Class
 CWH

All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in

 BG(1), CDF(2), CWH(51), IDF(4), MH(1), SBPS(2), SBS(1)

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

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