Spikelets contain 6 or 7 flowers and develop 4 or 5 kernels. Kernels are short and almost spherical, unique among wheats, and thresh free. Shot wheat is grown in Northwest India, but not commercially in the United States. Oriental wheat , Triticum turanicum jakubz. This is a spring wheat, early in maturity with narrow, pubescent leaves.
Spikes are long, loose, and almost square in cross-section.
Awns are long and often black. Spikelets produce 2 or 3 kernels which are long, narrow, white and hard. This wheat is grown in the Mediterranean Area and the Near East, but not in the United States. This is a latematuring spring wheat with leaf blades that are pubescent on both sides. Spikes are very compact, rather short, somewhat pyramidal in shape with soft, thin, rather short awns.