Triticum

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Triticum

• Description

  Genus Description - Infl a thick, bilateral spike with sessile, solitary spikelets borne flatwise to the rachis; spikelets 2–5-fld, turgid but laterally somewhat flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes thick and firm, 3–several- veined, excentrically keeled, mucronate or awned from the bidentate summit; lemmas broad, excentrically keeled, firm, acute to awned, with 5–7 nonconvergent veins; caryopsis deeply furrowed in back; annual or winter-annual grasses. 20, Eurasia.

• Common Names

  wheat