| Avena fatua L. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Common name | wild oat | ||
| Description | Up to 1 meter tall, stout, tufted; panicle loose, open mostly on one side; spikelets pendulous; florets mostly 3, falling off separately when brittle axis of spikelets dis- integrates; spikelets with 2 or more awns; lemma deeply 2-cleft in apex. | ||
| Ecology | Waste places; introduced at Juneau. Described from Europe. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Questionable whether persistent within area of interest. Map highly tentative. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.