Avena sativa
(cultivated oats)

Poaceae

 

Description:
Plants 3-6 dm tall. Leaf blades 4-10 mm wide. Glumes 17-28 mm long; florets usually 2; lemmas 12-23 mm long, subglabrous, awns usually straight, 15-25 mm long, sometimes absent, apical teeth acute, 0.5-1 mm long. Apr-Jun


Distribution:
Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Santa Catalina, and San Clemente islands; Guadalupe Island; native of Europe.

 

Santa Cruz Island
1995(1)
Introduced. Rare; disturbed sites, abandoned pastures; grasslands; ca. 250 ft (75 m). Central Valley near University of California Field Station, where it was first collected in April 1967.

 

(1) Provided by "A Flora of Santa Cruz Island" Steve Junak et al. Copyright Santa Barbara Botanic Garden & California Native Plant Society 1995.

 

Plant descriptions from "A Flora of Santa Cruz Island" Steve Junak et al. Copyright Santa Barbara Botanic Garden & California Native Plant Society 1995.  Used with permission.  Do not use or reproduce without permission.

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