| Scientific Name: | Triticum spp. |
| Common Name: | wheat |
| Family Name: | Poaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (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: | |
| For common wheat - leaf sheaths open, blades flat (in-rolled in bud), for common wheat blades are 5-20mm wide; ligules membranous, scarcely 1mm long; ear-shaped lobes at leaf-bases prominent; inflorescence a terminal spike, 5-12cm long, awned or awnless, with 1 spikelet per node; spikelets 2-5 flowered, unstalked; glumes firm, keeled, strongly 3- (or more) nerved, sharp-pointed to awned, the awns 1 to several; lemmas broad, lopsidely keeled, 4-5mm long, sharp-pointed to awned. <a href ='https://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Triticum%20aestivum&redblue=Both&lifeform=6' target='_blank'>E-Flora BC</a> | |