Aegilops is a genus of Eurasian and North American plants in the grass family, Poaceae.

It can also harbor pests such as the Russian wheat aphid (Diuraphis noxia) and pathogenic fungi.

The seeds were then carefully singed in the embers of a fire to burn away the remaining non-edible plant material.

[19] The genus name Aegilops is botanical Latin and comes from the Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps), which is of uncertain origin.

[21][22] Species once regarded as members of Aegilops but now considered better suited to other genera: Ctenium, Dactyloctenium, Elymus, Eremochloa, Ophiuros, Parapholis, Rottboellia, and Triticum Media related to Aegilops at Wikimedia Commons