Roland von Bothmer, Claus Baden† and Niels H. Jacobsen

Central spikelets: glumes 15–35 mm, spreading at maturity; lemmas awned, awns 11–35 mm.

Hordeum jubatum subsp. intermedium is most abundant in the dry prairies of the northern Rocky Mountains and northern plains, growing at 0–3000 m. It also grows, as a disjunct, in southern Mexico. It is sometimes treated as a species, either as H. intermedium Hausskn. or H. ×intermedium Hausskn., the latter reflecting a suspected hybrid origin involving H. jubatum and H. brachyantherum.