Mouse barley
Hordeum murinum L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Also called Wall barley
Formerly Critesion murinum, Zeocriton murinum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe, Medit. to C. Asia and W. HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 30 cm to 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- German
- Mäusegerste, Mäuse-Gerste
- Catalan
- cua de rata, espigadella, espigatrencat
- Asturian
- espigañu
- Czech
- ječmen myší
- Finnish
- hiirenohra
- French
- orge queue-de-rat
- Dutch
- kruipertje, Kruipertje
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Hordeum murinum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.