General:
Annual grass from fibrous roots, sometimes flowering as a winter annual; stems 40-150 cm tall.

Leaves:
Sheaths open; blades flat (in-rolled in bud), 5-20 mm wide; ligules membranous, scarcely 1 mm long; ear-shaped lobes at leaf-bases prominent.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a terminal spike, 5-12 cm long, awned or awnless, with 1 spikelet per node; spikelets 2- to 5-flowered, unstalked; glumes firm, keeled, strongly 3- (or more) nerved, sharp-pointed to awned, the awns 1 to several; lemmas broad, lopsidely keeled, several-nerved, the nerves non-convergent, 4-5 mm long, sharp-pointed to awned; lodicules oblong, slenderly lobed to fringed with hairs, about 1 mm long; anthers up to 1.5 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Flower Colour:
Yellow

Blooming Period:
Early Spring

Fruit/Seed characteristics:
Colour: Brown
Present from Spring to Summer

Source:  The USDA

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Triticum hybernum L.
Triticum macha Dekap. & Menab.
Triticum sativum Lam.
Triticum sphaerococcum Percival
Triticum vulgare Vill.
Triticum