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Triticum aestivum

Triticum

bread wheat

wheat
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.

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.

Triticum aestivum

Triticum
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 Introduced
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Subordinate taxa
T. aestivum
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