Spikelets usually contain two kernels. Kernels are medium long, slender and hard or flinty. It is not grown in the united States. Both winter and spring forms ocur. Spikes are awned, slender, narrow, flattened, and fragile.
Spikelets contain only a single fertile flower and thus produce only one seed.
Seeds are pale red, slender, flattened, almost without crease, and remain in the spikelets after threshing. Einkorn is little grown at present and not at all in the United States. Wild Einkorn , Triticum boeotictim Boiss. Wild Einkorn differs little from einkorn. It grows as a native grass in the Balkans and Anatolia.