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Avena sterilis
Also called Winter Wild Oat, Sterile Oat, Wild Oat, Wild Red Oat, Animated Oats
Avena sterilis (animated oat, sterile oat, wild oat, wild red oat, winter wild oat; syn. Avena ludoviciana Durieu; Avena macrocarpa Moench; Avena sterilis ssp. sterilis; Avena sterilis ssp. ludoviciana) is a species of grass weed whose seeds are edible. Many common names of this plant refer to the movement of its panicle in the wind.
Abyssinian oat · Slender Oat · Short Oat · Algerian Oat · Wild oat · Avena insularis · Naked oat · Oat · Lopsided oat · Oat
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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.
