Dasypyrum villosum
Dasypyrum villosum
Kızılev
Caespitose annual. Stems 25-70 cm, usually decumbent or geniculate-ascending. Leaf blades 2-4 mm broad, flat, sparsely pilose above, glabrous beneath. Spike 4-10 cm; rachis densely barbate on margins. Spikelets 7-20 mm, compressed. Glumes with small fascicles of rigid hairs on keels, with 1-4 cm awn. Lower lemma 10-13 mm, glabrous below, sparsely pilose above, with fascicles of rigid hairs below awn; awn 2-5 cm, scabrid. Fl. 5-6. Sandy arid areas, rocky limestone slopes, s.l.-200 m.
S. Europe, S.W. Russia, Crimea, Caucasia. Medit. element.