Triticum aestivum |
Poaceae |
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bread wheat |
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Habit | Plants annuals or winter annuals, up to 1.5 m. tall, the culms hollow. | |
Leaves | Sheaths open; auricles prominent; ligules 1 mm. long; blades 5-20 mm. broad. |
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Flowers | Inflorescence a spike 5-12 cm. long, awned or awnless; spikelets 2- to 5-flowered, borne in a terminal spike flatwise to the continuous rachis, 1 per node, sessile; glumes firm, keeled, strongly 3-nerved; lemmas broad, lopsidedly keeled; stamens 3. |
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Triticum aestivum |
Poaceae |
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Flowering time | April-June | |
Habitat | Fields, roadsides, wastelots, and other disturbed areas. | |
Distribution | Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Introduced from Eurasia | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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