Calflora: Hordeum intercedens

Hordeum intercedens Nevski

bobtail barley, little barley, vernal barley

Hordeum intercedens, a monocot, is an annual herb that is native to California and is also found elsewhere in North America and beyond, to Baja California.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 3.2 (review list). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Communities:	Valley Grassland, Freshwater Wetlands, wetland-riparian
Habitat:	vernal-pools [CNPS Inventory]
Wetlands:	Equally likely to occur in wetlands or non wetlands [U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.]

Family:	POACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Hordeum found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

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See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Fresno: 1 / 1 CCH Kern: 1 / 1 CCH Los Angeles: 44 / 40 CCH Merced: 3 / 1 CCH Nevada: 1 / 1 CCH Orange: 45 / 44 CCH Riverside: 41 / 41 CCH Sacramento: 1 / 0 CCH Santa Barbara: 33 / 29 CCH San Benito: 1 / 1 CCH San Diego: 37 / 35 CCH San Luis Obispo: 1 / 1 CCH Tulare: 4 / 3 CCH Ventura: 24 / 22 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Hordeum intercedens from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (HOIN2)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database