Genus Hordeum (Noun)
Meaning
Annual to perennial grasses of temperate northern hemisphere and South America: barley.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Hordeum jubatum is a species of grass known by the common name foxtail barley, native to North America from British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, south to California, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming.
- Barley Hordeum vulgare, the common barley, is the best-known species in the genus Hordeum, as its seeds are a major food crop for humans.
- Some Hordeum species, including the annual H. spontaneum and H. bulbosum, can intercross and form viable, fertile hybrids.
- The genus Hordeum belongs to the family Poaceae and includes the cultivated barley or common barley Hordeum vulgare, with several other species of worldwide distribution.
- Hordeum marinum is native to the Mediterranean Basin, western Europe, southwestern Asia from Turkey to Iran and southeastern Asia to China and India and Japan, and northwestern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia.