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Avena insularis

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
S. Sicilia, NE. Tunisia
Climate
subtropical

About

Avena insularis is a species of wild oat in the genus Avena that is native to Southern Sicilia and North-Eastern Tunisia. The species is a tetraploid and is found in uncultivated patches around the Mediterranean.

The species is suspected of being closely related to hexaploid oats Avena sativa and Avena byzantina.

Other Avena plants

Abyssinian oat · Slender Oat · Short Oat · Algerian Oat · Wild oat · Naked oat · Oat · Animated oat · Lopsided oat · Oat

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Avena insularis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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