Habit: 		Annual or winter annual.
Culms: 		About 60-100 cm. tall, erect, tufted, hollow, smooth or pubescent at the nodes.
Blades: 	About 30 cm. long, more or less, 1-2 cm. wide, auricled at the base, at first
		rather light green, soft, ciliate.
Sheaths: 	Smooth to slightly scabrous or pubescent.
Ligule: 	Membranous, about 1 mm. long.
Inflorescence: 	Spike 4-12 cm. long, dense, 4-angled, internodes of rachis 3-4 mm. long.
Spikelets: 	2-5-flowered, solitary and placed flatwise at each joint of the rachis,
		alternate, somewhat flattened, glabrous or pubescent, rachilla disarticulating
		above the glumes and between the florets.
Glumes: 	Shorter than the spikelets, usually strongly keeled to one side, the outer
		side broader, rigid, often toothed, but seldom awned at the apex.
Lemmas: 	Broad, keeled, very asymmetric, many-nerved, more or less 3-toothed,
		the middle tooth sometimes extended into a long awn (bearded wheats).
Palea: 		Shorter than the lemma, 2-keeled.
Fruit: 		Grain deeply furrowed, free, pubescent at the apex.
Use: 		An important grain and for part of winter valuable pasturage.
Synonyms:	Triticum hybernum L.
		Triticum macha Dekap. & Menab.
		Triticum sativum Lam.
		Triticum sphaerococcum Percival
		Triticum vulgare Vill.