Wild Oat
| Wild Oat Avena fatua |
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| Tufted annual grass growing to 1.7m. It has tough broad leaves and the flower head has drooping loose open spikelets on long fine pedicles. Each spikelet has 3 florets which become golden with increasing age. The flower is enclosed by a bract which is a reduced leaf and the inner leaf has fine golden brown silky hairs. |
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