Secale montanum Guss.

Seigle raide (fr), Seigle des montagnes (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Secale

Characteristics

A grass. It keeps growing from year to year. It forms tufts and is greyish-green. It grows 100 cm high. The leaf blades can be flat or rolled. They are 15 cm long by 2-8 mm wide. The flower spike is 4-8 cm long. The spikelets have 2 flowers.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.5
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant.
Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

The grain is eaten as a cereal. It is also used for flour for making bread and other baked goods.
Uses animal food fodder gene source
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

It is grown from seed.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) 13 - 19
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Secale montanum unspecified picture

Distribution

Secale montanum world distribution map, present in Albania, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, and Turks and Caicos Islands

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:421183-1
WFO ID wfo-0000898559
COL ID 4W846
BDTFX ID 62109
INPN ID 122088
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Frumentum secale Secale chaldicum Secale dalmaticum Secale kuprijanovii Secale montanum Secale montanum subsp. chaldicum Secale montanum subsp. kuprijanovii Secale strictum subsp. kuprijanovii Secale montanum var. dalmaticum Secale montanum var. krurijanovii Secale strictum subsp. chaldicum Secale kuprijanovii subsp. ciscaucasica Secale kuprijanovii subsp. transcaucasica