| Family | Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) |
| Subfamily | Pooideae |
| Tribe | Triticeae |
| Scientific name | Hordeum murinum L. |
| Synonyms | Critesion murinum (L.) A. Löve; Triticum murale Salisbury; Zeocriton murinum (L.) Palisot de Beauvois |
| Common name | (Japanese common name) mugi-kusa (ムギクサ, 麦草 [meaning: wheat grass]) |
| (English common name) false barley, mouse barley, wall barley | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) [native] India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Caucasus, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus, Europe, Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia | |
| Habitat | Roadside, field |
| Chromosomal number | 2n=28 |
| Description | Plants 5-50cm tall. Flowers inflorescences 5-9cm long, flowering in April to May. Annual plants. |
| Reference | Hordeum murinum L. |
| Hordeum murinum L. | |
| Hordeum murinum Linn. | |
| Hordeum murinum | |
| Ribosome-inactivating proteins, inactive precursor forms thereof, a process for making and a method of using (US Patent 5646026/1997) | |
| Sulfonamide resistance genes and their use (US Patent 5633444/1997) | |
| Cryopreservation of plant cells (US Patent 6127181/2000) | |
| Note | Naturalized plants. |
| May 2009 at coastal field |
May 2009 at coastal field |
May 2009 at coastal field |