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§1 Plant

Hordeum murinum L.

vernacular mouse barley — species · Poaceae


USDA
HOMU
GBIF
7886346
Rank
species
mouse barley (Hordeum murinum)
Platephotograph · SaloméCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Annual
Group
Monocot
Family
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus
Hordeum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • PB Pacific Basin (except Hawaii) Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 220 counties across 21 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 220 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 220 counties across 21 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 14 I ▾
California view state ↗ 51 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 7 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 25 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 26 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Wyoming view state ↗ 1 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/HOMU ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7886346 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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