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|accepted_name=Hordeum pusillum
|accepted_authority=Nutt.
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|common_names=Little barley
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Critesion pusillum
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Triticeae;Hordeum;Hordeum pusillum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Triticeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hordeum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hordeum pusillum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 243
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; loosely tufted. <b>Culms</b> 10-60 cm, erect, geniculate, or ascending; nodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or slightly pubescent; ligules 0.2-0.8 mm; auricles absent; blades to 10.5 cm long, to 4.5 mm wide, sparsely to densely pubescent on both sides. <b>Spikes</b> 2-9 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, erect, often partially enclosed at maturity, pale green. <b>Glumes</b> straight, not divergent at maturity. <b>Central</b> spikelets: glumes 8-17 mm long, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, distinctly flattened near the base; lemmas 5-8.5 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely to densely pubescent, awned, awns 3.5-9.5 mm; anthers 0.7-1.8 mm. <b>Lateral</b> spikelets usually sterile; glumes to 18 mm; lower glumes distinctly flattened, more or less winged basally; lemmas 2.5-5.7 mm, usually awned, awns to 1.8 mm, rarely unawned; anthers 0.6-1.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;Ariz.;N.Mex.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Mass.;N.H.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Calif.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Alta.;B.C.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Idaho;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Hordeum pusillum</i> grows in open grasslands, pastures, and the borders of marshes, and in disturbed places such as roadsides and waste places, often in alkaline soil. It is native, widespread, and often common in much of the Flora region. Its range extends into northern Mexico, but it is not common there.</p>
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name=Hordeum pusillum
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|authority=Nutt.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Critesion pusillum
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Wash.;Del.;D.C;Wis.;Ariz.;N.Mex.;Fla.;Wyo.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Mass.;N.H.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Calif.;Nev.;Va.;Colo.;Alta.;B.C.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Idaho;Conn.;Maine;Md.;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Mont.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Triticeae
|genus=Hordeum
|species=Hordeum pusillum
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