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salt barley

Hordeum marinum

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) cavallaro_m_itt_majorana, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	6,568
Alaska	4,453
California	1,542
Oregon	237
Washington	168
Nevada	64
Idaho	55
Canada	31
British Columbia	31
Australia	30

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Crop wild relativeListed as a crop wild relative or crop gene source by a harvested source.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Grass-like growth formListed by a harvested source as having a graminoid or grass-like growth form.USDA PLANTS Characteristics
Annual plantListed by a harvested source as having an annual life duration.USDA PLANTS Characteristics

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	monocots · Liliopsida
Order	grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies · Poales
Family	grasses · Poaceae
Genus	Barleys · Hordeum

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
Traits: USDA PLANTS Characteristics (U.S. Government work / public domain)
How much to rely on each source

Remember the name next time.

Practise salt barley with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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