Annual to 1 m tall. Leaves with blade flat, to 2 cm wide. Ligules membranous, whiskered. Inflorescences 5-15 cm long and to 2 cm wide. Spikelets about 1.5 cm long excluding awns. Florets 3-6, the upper 1 or 2 florets often sterile; spring.

Mediterranean

A highly variable cultigen.

This is Bread Wheat and the most widely grown of all cereals, with numerous cultivars.T. Durum Group is occasionally grown and differs in having hairy nodes in the spike stalk. Both kinds of wheat are naturalised along roadsides in wheat-growing areas. ×Triticosecale is a disease resistant intergeneric hybrid between wheat and rye and quite common as a cereal and forage crop; it is also used to stabilise roadsides.

Source: Spencer, R.; Aldous, D.; Stajsic, V.; McGeary, D (2005). Poaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.