Little Barley
Hordeum pusillum Nutt.
Poaceae (Grass Family)
▲▼ mature plants
▲▼mature plants (lower one showing more prostrate growth habit)
▲ colony of plants
▲inflorescence
▲ stem bases
▲ collar and ligule region
Little Barley:
· Annual or cool-season annual of winter annual crops and pastures
· Grows 6” – 18” tall, light green slender, upright-growing, not hairy leaves
· Inflorescences is an spike with awned spikelets
· Awns can irritate livestock grazing on them; can be an indicator of overgrazing
