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Triticum monococcum subsp. aegilopoides

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Wild einkorn

Poaceae Edible: Seeds, Cereal 71 iNaturalist observations

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Description

A grass in the Poaceae family with seeds used as cereal. Wild einkorn is a temperate species that is cultivated.

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Distribution

It is a temperate plant.

Where It Grows

Asia, Caucasus, Europe,

Other Information

It is cultivated.

References (3)

  • Naturwiss. Wochenschr. 33:470. 1918 (P. F. A. Ascherson & K. O. R. P. P. Graebner, Syn. mitteleur. Fl. 2:701. 1901, without rank)
  • Plants for a Future database, The Field, Penpol, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, PL22 0NG, UK. http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/
  • Wiersema, J. H. & Leon, B., 2013, World Economic Plants. A Standard Reference CRC Press. 2nd Ed. p 699

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