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Hordeum comosum is a perennial wild barley grass from Chile and Argentina, grown mainly as a forage grass that sheep relish. It is grown as a garden or pasture grass in temperate climates rather than as a houseplant.
Hordeum comosum is a species of wild barley in the family Poaceae. It is native to Chile and western and southern Argentina, and has been introduced to the Falkland Islands. A widespread perennial grass, it is an important forage as it is relished by sheep.
Bulbous barley · Two Rowed Barley · Foxtail barley · Little barley · Spontaneous barley · Barley · Barley
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hordeum comosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
