glume
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Reasons for the dwindling crop: long, unseasonal rains, in some cases hail, and plant diseases like stem rust and glume blotch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Flowering glume acute, pointed or awned at the tip, few-nerved.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Nerves of the flowering glume 3, villous, at least the middle one more or less excurrent.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
As Avena, but the 3 middle nerves of the flowering glume running into a flattish twisted awn from between the teeth.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Flower mostly hairy at base, the glume mucronate or awned.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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