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Hordeum secalinum
Also called False Rye Barley, Knotted Barley
Meadow barley is a perennial wild grass of temperate meadows and grasslands in Europe, the Caucasus and North Africa, grown mainly as an ornamental or for naturalising in gardens. Give it open, sunny ground with moist to average soil.
Hordeum secalinum, false rye barley or meadow barley (a name it shares with Hordeum brachyantherum), is a species of wild barley native to Europe, including the Madeiras, Crimea and the north Caucasus, northwest Africa, and the Levant. It has been introduced to Australia and New Zealand. An allotetraploid, it arose from ancestors with the Xa and I Hordeum genomes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hordeum secalinum 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.
