| Triticum aestivum L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Triticum vulgare Vill., Triticum sativum Lam. | ||
| Description | Annual; culms tufted, hollow, leaf blades auriculate, pubescent when young; section of spike quadrangular; rachis of spike disintegrating; lemma with short, or sometimes prolonged, awn. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; not self-maintaining. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | No circumpolar map can be constructed. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.