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Little Barley – Plant

LATIN NAME
Hordeum pusillum

LONGEVITY
Annual

SEASON
Cool

ORIGIN
Native

DETAILS:

  • This annual grass can be found throughout most of Texas in waste places, disturbed sites, open rangeland and along roadside ditches. Especially adapted to alkaline soils.
  • Greens up very early in the spring, and matures to a straw colored yellow quickly.
  • Provides very little grazing to livestock and wildlife.

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