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How to Manage Pests

Identification: Weed Photo Gallery

Volunteer wheat

Scientific name: Triticum sp. (Grass Family: Poaceae)

Life stages of Volunteer wheat flowering head collar region: barley, wheat, oats

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DESCRIPTION:
Volunteer wheat is an occasional weedy annual grass in crops that follow commercial wheat in crop rotations. Mature plants are 2 to 4 feet (60 - 122 cm) tall and sprout at the base. Wheat can be distinguished from most other grasses by the way the ligules clasp the stem but barely overlap. Ligules on barley plants are longer and overlap one another more completely.

Grass ID illustration.


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