A stand of Barley, its bearded heads nodding with long awns.

Barley is the bearded grain: nodding pale straw-gold heads fanned with dramatic whisker-like awns that catch the light and the wind alike. It favors the thin, stony ground the softer cereals refuse, and is cut and bound into @items/grain-sheaves/barley by foragers who know where to look.
The long bristles make a ripe stand impossible to mistake — and impossible to cut carelessly, since the awns catch on everything they touch.


Barley

Nodding pale-gold heads fanned with long whisker-like awns.

 and bound at the stem, this sheaf still bristles with the long awns that make the plant unmistakable in a field. The grain stays locked in the heads until a mill threshes it loose.
Barley is a stubborn crop, holding out on thin ground where wheat and rye give up, and its awns fight the blade the whole way. The rustic loaf it bakes into tastes of the ground it came off.


Barley Sheaf

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Tier	3
Max Stack	10