| Scientific Name: | Hordeum vulgare |
| Common Name: | barley |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Spikelet, Yellow, Green, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Edible, Grain (caryopsis), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Culms 80-100(-150)cm tall, nodes glabrous; leaf blades up to 25cm long x 1.5cm wide, lower sheath with soft hairs, upper sheaths glabrous; spikes 5-10cm long x 0.8-2cm wide, green to purplish or blackish; nodes 10-30, with 3 spikelets per node, 0-2 lateral spikelets, in addition to the central spikelets, forming seed at maturity (resulting in 2-, 4-, and 6-rowed barley); grains usually with awls 3-18cm long. <a href ='http://floranorthamerica.org/Hordeum_vulgare' target='_blank'>Flora of North America</a> | |