High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hordeum arizonicum is a species of wild barley known by the common name Arizona barley. It is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, where it grows in wet spots in desert regions, such as irrigation ditches. It can grow in somewhat saline soils. This is an annual or perennial grass forming erect tufts 20 to 70 centimeters high. The inflorescence is a spike up to about 12 centimeters long made up of spikelets up to about 3 centimeters long each, usually tipped with awns.