Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Hordelymus > Hordelymus europaeusHordelymus europaeus (Wood barley)Synonyms: Cuviera europaea (homotypic); Elymus compositus; Elymus cylindricus (heterotypic); Elymus europaeus (homotypic); Elymus europaeus f. elatior; Frumentum sylvaticum; Hordeum cylindricum (heterotypic); Hordeum desmoulinsii; Hordeum elymoides (heterotypic); Hordeum elymus; Hordeum europaeum (heterotypic); Hordeum montanum; Hordeum sylvaticum; Hordeum sylvaticum var. europaeum; Leptothrix europaea (homotypic); Triticum sylvaticum Hordelymus is a genus of European, north African, and southwest Asian plants in the grass family. The only known species is Hordelymus europaeus, native to Europe (from Sweden + Ireland to Spain, Italy, and Russia) as well as North Africa (Algeria + Morocco) and southwestern Asia (Turkey + Caucasus). Wood-barley is a common name for H. europaeus. formerly included see Taeniatherum \n* Hordelymus asper - Taeniatherum caput-medusae \n* Hordelymus caput-medusae - Taeniatherum caput-medusae |
| Height [1] | 3.936 feet (1.2 m) |  | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Structure [3] | Grass | | | Light Preference [2] | Mixed Sun/Shade | | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | | Soil Fertility [2] | Rich | | Soil Moisture [2] | Mostly Dry |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004) ♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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