Little Barley (Hordeum pusillum) Narrow dense terminal seed head covered with awns. Three spikelets per node in spike-like raceme, the center on fertile ( 1-flowered), the two lateral spikelets sterile and on pedicels. Lemma of central spikelet about 1/4 inch long with 1/4 inch awn. Lemma and awns shorter on lateral spikelets. |