Publication: Sp. Pl. 1: 84 1753.

Origin: Introduced from Europe

Herbarium search: CPNWH

Notes: FNA24: "Secale cereale is one of the world\'s most important cereal grasses; it is also widely used in North America for soil stabilization and, particularly in Canada, for whisky. When dry, the spike is often distinctly nodding.

Frederiksen and Petersen (1998) placed cultivated plants with a nondisarticulating rachis into Secale cereale L. subsp. cereale, and wild or weedy plants with a more fragile rachis into Secale cereale subsp. ancestrale Zhuk."

Last updated 1/3/2024 by David Giblin.