Hordeum brachyantherum

Nevski
Synonyms: Hordeum nodosum Critesion brachyantherum
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 243.

Plants perennial; loosely to densely cespitose. Culms to 90 cm, erect to geniculate, not bulbous; nodes glabrous. Sheaths glabrous or densely pubescent; auricles absent; blades to 19 cm long, to 8 mm wide, glabrous or with hairs on both surfaces, hairs sometimes of mixed lengths. Spikes 3-8.5 cm, green to somewhat purple. Glumes 7-19 mm, ascending to slightly divergent at maturity. Central spikelets: glumes 9-19 mm long, about 0.2 mm wide, setaceous throughout, rarely flattened near the base; lemmas 5.5-10 mm, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent, awned, awns 3.5-14 mm; anthers 0.8-4 mm. Lateral spikelets staminate; glumes 7-19 mm, setaceous; lower glumes sometimes flattened near the base; lemmas rudimentary to well developed, awns to 7.5 mm, rarely absent; anthers 0.8-4 mm. 2n = 14, 28, 42.

Distribution

Wash., Pacific Islands (Hawaii), Wyo., N.H., N.J., N.Mex., Tex., N.Y., Pa., Oreg., Alta., B.C., Nfld. and Labr., Que., Sask., Yukon, Nev., Colo., Alaska, Ill., Ind., Ariz., Calif., Idaho, Maine, Md., Ohio, Utah, Mo., Mont., Miss.

Discussion

Hordeum brachyantherum is native to the Kamchatka Peninsula and western North America, and has been introduced to a few locations in the eastern United States. There is also a small disjunct population in Newfoundland and Labrador that Baum (1978) identified as H. secalinum. Hordeum brachyantherum grows in salt marshes, pastures, woodlands, subarctic woodland meadows, and subalpine meadows.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Basal sheaths usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely pubescent; anthers 0.8-3.5 mm long; culms often robust, sometimes slender Hordeum brachyantherum subsp. brachyantherum
1 Basal sheaths usually densely pubescent; anthers 1.1-4 mm long; culms usually slender Hordeum brachyantherum subsp. californicum
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Roland von Bothmer +, Claus Badenf +  and Niels H. Jacobsen +
Nevski +
Wash. +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Wyo. +, N.H. +, N.J. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, N.Y. +, Pa. +, Oreg. +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Yukon +, Nev. +, Colo. +, Alaska +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Ariz. +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Maine +, Md. +, Ohio +, Utah +, Mo. +, Mont. +  and Miss. +
Hordeum nodosum +  and Critesion brachyantherum +
Hordeum brachyantherum +
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