Index / Search / Hordeum murinum
§1 Plant
Hordeum murinum L.
vernacular mouse barley — species · Poaceae
§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
· 34 counties across 10 states/territories§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 34 counties across 10 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 14 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 7 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 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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