Common wheat
गेहूंபொதுவான கோதுமைട്രിറ്റിക്കം ഏസ്റ്റിവും
Triticum aestivum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Poaceae
Formerly Aegilops aestiva
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNo pet-safety information yet
PeopleNo safety information yet
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from Transcaucasus to Israel and NW. Iran, S. Pakistan to NW. IndiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 小麥, 小麦, 云南小麦
- German
- Weichweizen
- Dutch
- Tarwe, Gewone tarwe
- Spanish
- Trigo
- Asturian
- trigu
- Albanian
- Gruri
- Simplified Chinese
- 小麦, 普通小麦
- Bulgarian
- Зимна пшеница
- Czech
- pšenice setá
- Welsh
- gwenith
- Danish
- Brød-Hvede
- Finnish
- leipävehnä, Vehnä
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Triticum aestivum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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