Spring wheat (Triticum aestivum)

Family: True grasses (Poaceae)

Morphological characteristics of wheat:

Leaf ears: short, not enclosing the stem, ciliate

Leaf ligule (Ligula): medium size, serrated

Infructescence:  Spike not awned and round, exception: awnded wheat variety

Grain:  brown-yellow to reddish, oval, medium-length whiskers