Hordeum vulgare L.

The cultivated barley. In New Mexico it occasionally escapes cultivation and is sometimes seeded heavily in burned montane forest by the U.S. Forest Service.

Plant habit along NM Hwy. 152 just east of Emory Pass in the Black Range, Grant County, New Mexico, 15 Oct 2013. It was seeded throughout large expanses of the Black Range following the Silver Fire of June 2013.

Inflorescences along NM Hwy. 152 just east of Emory Pass, 15 Oct 2013.

Closer view of an inflorescence along NM Hwy. 152 just east of Emory Pass, 15 Oct 2013.

Adaxial (left) and abaxial (right) views of the three spikelets at each node of the inflorescence (central spikelet fertile, lateral spikelets reduced), along NM Hwy. 152 just east of Emory Pass, 15 Oct 2013.

Stem and collar region of a leaf along NM Hwy. 152 just east of Emory Pass, 15 Oct 2013.