Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia
Foxtail Barley
(Hordeum jubatum)
perennial growing in tufts to 0.6 metres tall; flowerheads, 5 to 13 cm long, break into 7-bristled clusters with 3 spikelets at each joint; green or reddish bristles (awns), 7.5 cm long, are
cream-coloured when mature
upward pointing barbs on the bristles can cause mechanical injury to grazing animals
often found on the edges of alkaline sloughs and salt marshes
