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WEED FLORA OP IOWA 



Wild Oats (Avena fatua L,). 



Description. — An erect, glabrous annual, 3-5 ft. high, with flat 

 leaves and spreading panicles of large, oatlike, nodding spikelets; 



Fig. 22. Wild Oats (Avena fatua). In oat and grain fields, northeastern Iowa. 

 (After Clark and Fletcher.) 



