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Barley grass eye damage

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Barley grass eye damage

Apart from being a serious weed of pasture throughout the country, the barbed awns on barley grass seeds can penetrate the eyes of sheep and cause painful lesions and blindness.

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Ian Popay, Weeds of agriculture – Weeds in pasture, crops and forestry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16475/barley-grass-eye-damage (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ian Popay, published 1 March 2009.