Hordeum marinum Huds.

Spice In the field Inflorescence

Family: GRAMINEAE (POACEAE)

Genus: Hordeum

Province distribution: Alacant. Balearic Islands. Castelló. Girona. Lleida. Tarragona. València.

Distribution in the islands: Mallorca. Menorca. Ibiza. Formentera.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Some regions

IUCN Category: LCLeast concern

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Litoral marshes and riparian. Salty and humid soils.

Characteristics: This Hordeum lives in saline, clay soils, normally forming small mats. It looks very much like Hordeum murinum, but can be distinguished by its smallness and above all because the spike is clearly compressed and is narrower at the tip and the leaves are pubescent.