Common name
English: False barley
German: Mäuse-Gerste
Portuguese: Cevada-dos-ratos
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2659)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)
Class: Liliopsida (392)
Order: Cyperales (91)
Family: Poaceae (72)(family description)
Genus: Hordeum (1)
Epithet: murinum L. (1)
Synonyms: Critesion murinum (L.) Á.Löve, Hordeum boreale Gand., Hordeum coleophorum Phil., Hordeum delphicum Gand.
boreale => northern
delphicum => from Delphi, Greece
murinum => of mice, mouse-gray, like a mouse
Characteristics
Climate: temperate, sub-tropical
Habit: herb