Hebrew: חפורית קטנה, Arabic: Sha'ir el-far
| Scientific name: | Phalaris minor Retz. | |
| Common name: | Little seeded canary grass, small canary grass | |
| Hebrew name: | חפורית קטנה | |
| Arabic name: | Sha'ir el-far | |
| Family: | Gramineae (Poaceae), Grass Family, משפחת הדגניים |
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| Life form: | Annual | |
| Spinescence: | non- | |
| Stems: | to 80cm high | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, to 20cm long, flat, broadly linear, tapering to an apex. | |
| Inflorescence: | A dense oblong to oblong-ovate cylindrical panicle | |
| Flowers: | Green, all spikelets fertile, about 5mm long, glues compressed, withtoothed wings. | |
| Fruits / pods: | A caryopsis with adherent pericarp and a linear hilum. | |
| Flowering Period: | March, April, May, June | |
| Habitat: | Desert, Shrub-steppes | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands,Shrub-steppes, Semi-steppe shrublands, Deserts | |
| Chorotype: | Med - Irano-Turanian | |
| Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
Derivation of the botanical name: Phalaris, Greek, used by Dioscorides for a kind of grass, ribbon grass, canary grass; phalaros "having a patch of white, crested, "phalos" shining, bright, white, a part of the helmet"; Latin phalaris or phaleris, idis for the plant canary-grass. minor, smaller.
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