Parent species: Hordeum brachyantherum
Plant Communities: Yellow Pine Forest Red Fir Forest Lodgepole Forest Subalpine Forest Foothill Woodland Chaparral Valley Grassland wetland-riparian
Synonyms: Critesion californicum Hordeum californicum
Counties: Alameda Alpine Butte Calaveras Contra Costa Colusa El Dorado Fresno Glenn Humboldt Inyo Kern Lake Lassen Los Angeles Madera Marin Mariposa Mendocino Mono Monterey Modoc Napa Nevada Orange Placer Riverside Sacramento Santa Barbara San Bernardino San Benito Santa Clara Santa Cruz San Diego San Luis Obispo San Mateo Siskiyou Solano Sonoma Stanislaus Tehama Tulare Tuolumne Ventura Yolo