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Hordeum muticum

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Grass
Native range
Peru to N. Argentina
Climate
montane tropical

About

Hordeum muticum is a species of wild barley in the grass family Poaceae, native to the high central Andes; Peru, Bolivia, northern Chile, and northern Argentina, and introduced to Ecuador. A diploid, its closest relative is Hordeum cordobense, a lowland species with a more southerly distribution.

Other Hordeum plants

Hordeum aegiceras · Arizona barley · Hordeum bogdanii · Meadow barley · Hordeum brevisubulatum · Bulbous barley · California Barley · Cape Wild Barley · Hordeum chilense · Hordeum comosum · Hordeum cordobense · Dwarf barley

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hordeum muticum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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