Triticum compactum or incomplete specimen. As a general rule, if a naked wheat, wheat with round grains and irregularly broken rachis forming internodes, is uncovered in a European site, excluding all sites on the Italian or Balkan peninsulas, it should be considered a hexaploid club wheat (either "T. aestivum" or "T. compactum" ). If such wheat has short internodes it should be identified as "T. compactum". "Triticum compactum" generally flowers during the months of June and July with its seeds ripening in August and September. "Triticum compactum" is an annual plant growing to heights of approximately 0.6 meters in the summer and
Cereal growth staging scales development, the Feekes scale is useful in planning management strategies that incorporate plant growth information for the use of pesticides and fertilizers to avoid damaging the crop and/or maximize crop yield. The Zadoks scale is a cereal development scale proposed by the Dutch phytopathologist Jan C. Zadoks that is widely used in cereal research and agriculture. Knowing the stages of development of a crop is critical in many management decisions that growers make. They are represented on a scale from 10 to 92. For example, in some countries, nitrogen and herbicide applications must be completed during the tillering stage. In