Triticum monococcum

Triticum monococcum is a ANNUAL growing to 1 m .
It is not frost tender. It is in flower from June to July, and the seeds ripen from August to September. The species is hermaphrodite and is pollinated by Wind.
Suitable for: light , medium and heavy soils, prefers well-drained soil and can grow in nutritionally poor soil. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It prefers dry or moist soil.

An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most well-drained soils in a sunny position. A low yielding species, but it succeeds in poor rocky soils and thrives in a short growing season. This is supposedly the oldest species of wheat, it probably arose over 10,000 years ago and is still occasionally cultivated for its edible seed in the mountains of Germany, Switzerland and Italy. A diploid species.