Relatives
Secale segetale (Zhuk.) Roshev. - Weed-field Rye.
Synonyms:
Secale cereale subsp. segetale Zhuk., Secale cereale subsp. vavilovii (Grossh.) Kobyl.Taxonomical position.
Family Poaceae Benth. Genera Secale L..Morphology and biology.
Annual cereal. A stalk of height (30) 65-170 cm, under an ear tomentous, less often naked, usually hollow. Leaves of width of 2-4 mm, flat, grey. An ear in a different degree fragile, 6-12 cm of length. Spikelet scales smooth, occasionally finely tomentous, terminate by awn-shaped shoot. External floral scales smooth or tomentous, across Kiel crested jagged, terminating with rough anws 2-5 cm of length. Anemophilous. Blossoms in June-August. 2n=14.Distribution.
Caucasus, Central Asia; Asia Minor, the Near East, Iran, Afghanistan.Ecology.
Weed in crops of wheat and barley, along fields and roads.Use and economic value.
Weed in crops of grain crops.The literature:
Grossheim A.A. Flora of Caucasus. V.2. Polypodiaceae - Gramineae. - Baku, Publishing house AzFaN, 1939. - 587 p.Cultural flora of the USSR. V.2, p.1. Rye / Ed. V.D.Kobyljanskiy. - L.: "Agropromizdat", 1989. - 368 p.
Tzvelev N.N. Cereals of the USSR. - L., "Nauka", 1976. - 788 p.