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Secale sylvestre is a wild annual grass in the rye genus, a wild relative of cultivated rye (S. cereale), native to eastern and southeastern Europe through central Asia. It is not a commonly grown garden plant, and its care is best treated as that of a hardy annual cereal grass.
Secale sylvestre is a wild relative of rye (S. cereale).
Secale africanum · Secale anatolicum · Rye · Wild Rye · Secale segetale · Wild Rye · Rye
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Secale sylvestre 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.
