Wild Oat      Avena fatua L.
Photographs by Dr. Michael Pfeiffer
Sign Weed of crops and disturbed areas. Very competitive weed in grain crops, cosmopolitan and many consider it invasive.
Plant
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Plant
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Collar
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Inflorescense
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Spikelet
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Strigose Lemma
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Infestation
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Seed
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Dried Inflorescense
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Annual