Avena fatua, Common wild oat - Seeds - plants - dried herbs

Common names: Common wild oat, animated oat, sterile oat, wild oat, wild red oat, winter wild oat

Botanical name & synonyms: Avena fatua, Anelytrum avenaceum, Avena ambigua, Avena cultiformis, Avena hybrida, Avena intermedia, Avena intermedia, Avena japonica, Avena lanuginosa, Avena meridionalis, Avena nigra, Avena occidentalis, Avena patens, Avena pilosa, Avena sativa subsp. fatua, Avena septentrionalis, Avena sterilis, Avena vilis

Family: Gramineae, true grasses (Poaceae)

• native to Eurasia, northern Africa
  

• annual
  

• 40 to 130cm
  

• flower VI to VIII
  

• plant community: ruderal

• weight of 1 000 seeds = 20 gram