Annuals Dictionary: Triticum
Grass family
Gramineae
Trit’i-kum. Wheat . About 30 species of annual or biennial grasses, allied to Secale (Rye) and Agropyron, which includes Quackgrass. The species below cultivated since antiquity. W. Asia. Next to Rice, the most important cereal grass in the world.
Description
Leaf blades flat and narrow. Flowers in relatively stout spikelike panicle, the spikelets crowded, awned in some varieties, but without awn in others. Fruit, the Wheat grain, grooved.
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