Mane barley

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Mane barley
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Maned barley ( Hordeum jubatum )

Systematics
Order : Sweet grass (Poales)
Family : Sweet grasses (Poaceae)
Subfamily : Pooideae
Tribe : Triticeae
Genre : Barley ( hordeum )
Type : Mane barley
Scientific name
Hordeum jubatum
L.

The mane barley ( Hordeum jubatum ) is a species of the genus barley ( Hordeum ) within the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

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Appearance and leaf

The mane barley grows as a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 20 to 50, rarely up to 60 centimeters. The stalk has three to five nodes (nodes). The leaves are green and softly overhanging in summer. The stem leaves are densely hairy on both sides. The leaf blade is flat.

inflorescence

The flowering time is in the middle of summer . The terminal, overhanging, spiky inflorescences are silky silver-white, turn beige towards the end of summer and often have a slight reddish tinge. In an annual inflorescence three to six spikelets are close together. The spikelets are single-flowered and without basal bristles. Only the middle spikelets are petiolate. The lemmas have long 5 to 8 centimeters awns .

Chromosome set

The maned barley is tetraploid with a chromosome number of 2n = 28 . It was created by crossing ( hybridizing ) a Central Asian species of barley with the North American species Hordeum brachyantherum (or a closely related species that is now extinct).

Occurrence

Mane barley is native to northern North America ( Alaska , Canada ), and Asia from northeastern Siberia to the Caucasus. It is cultivated in gardens and is often released into the wild as "garden refugees", so that this species occurs today as " weeds " in many regions of the world . It thrives on fresh, nutrient-rich, sometimes salty soils in humid climates. It grows in societies of the Sisymbrion or Agropyro-Rumicion associations on the edge of salt-strewn roads.

The mane barley prefers sunny locations and is salt-tolerant.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Hordeum jubatum L., mane barley. In: FloraWeb.de.
  2. Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Hordeum jubatum. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp.  236 .

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Web links

Commons : Mane Barley ( Hordeum jubatum )  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files