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WEED FLORA OF IOWA 



Wild Oats {Avena fatua It.). 

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

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



WILD OATS 



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

 (Alter Clark and Fletcher.) 



