Plant Type:

• grasses
• annual

USDA Hardiness Zones:

• Not apply

Pests and Diseases: Very disease resistant

Notes for Identification: Hairy plant with hairy root, noded stems gathered in tufts reaching upwards from 20 cm to 40 cm. Flat and thick leaves. The spike (without awns) is 2-3 cm long, hard, with 3-4 spikelets of which the upper 1-2 are always non- fructiferous and the lower 2 - always frucfiferous, rounded, slightly swollen with 6-8 awns each. The chaffs of the fructiferous spikelets are strongly bristlelike rugged along the veins but naked between them ending at the tip with 2 long almost similar awns. - source: dewa/grid