Wheat
Triticum aestivum
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Triticum aestivum
- Group
- Monocotyledon
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Continent
- Asia
- Habitat
- Fields
- Form
- Grass
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- Inconspicuous
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- Food
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Bread wheat has six sets of chromosomes, inherited from three different wild grasses.
- Farmers in the Fertile Crescent started growing its wild ancestors around 10,000 years ago.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q15645384 · All plants · All entries