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Foxtail barley
Poaceae (Grass Family)

USDA Symbol: HOJU
USDA Native Status: Native to U.S.

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Location: Halfway from horse pens to iron bridge on south side of Wolfeton Way along pathway--Oakwell Farms.
Latitude: 0.000000

Habitat: Half shade. Moist, alkaline, alluvial soil.

Description: Perennial, erect, to 75 cm. Spikelets in 3's, the lateral ones staminate and smaller than the central one.

County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: May 22, 1987
Specimen number: 155

Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0333
Accession Date: May 8, 1993
Accession Number: 27

Annotations: SXFRB Elymus virginicus L. det. F.R. Waller 5/3/94