Bread Wheat
Bread Wheat
Grass
A cereal grass whose grains are ground into flour for bread — the food crop that feeds more people than any other.
💡 Fun Facts
- Wheat grains are ground into flour to make bread, pasta and cereal.
- It feeds more people around the world than any other plant.
- Wheat is really a type of grass — the seeds grow in an 'ear' at the top of the stalk.
📅 Through the Year
- Flowering:June to July
- Fruiting:August
Name Story
Triticum aestivum
means “summer wheat”
What does its name mean?
- Triticum — wheatLatin, from terere ‘to rub, grind, thresh’
- aestivum — of the summerLatin aestas ‘summer’
The first word comes from a Latin word for rubbing or grinding — exactly what we do to wheat to shake the grain free. The second means ‘of the summer’, marking the kind of wheat that ripens in the warmer months.