Oat - Avena sativa

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    Alt Name
    Cultivated Oat and as Common Oat
    Description

    Similar to Wild Oat, but the spikelets are 17 to 20 mm long, without hairs on the lemma bases; the lemmas with fairly straight awns, or sometimes awnless.

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    Habitat

    Roadside verges and field margins.

    When to see it

    Flowers June to September.

    Life History

    Perennial

    UK Status

    Widespread in Britain as a relic of cultivation.

    VC55 Status

    Occasional escape from cultivation in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.

    • Graham Calow
      Higham on the Hill
      12 June 2015
    • David Nicholls
      Ratby
      05 June 2014
    • Graham Calow
      Springwell Lane, near Whetsone
      01 July 2016
      often without awns
    • David Nicholls
      Ratby
      05 June 2014
    • Graham Calow
      Higham on the Hill
      11 June 2015
    • David Nicholls
      Ratby
      05 June 2014
    • Graham Calow
      Higham on the Hill
      11 June 2015

    Leicestershire & Rutland Map

    UK Map

    • Graham Calow
      Higham on the Hill
      11 June 2015
    • Graham Calow
      Higham on the Hill
      11 June 2015
    • Graham Calow
      Witherley
      18 June 2015
    • Graham Calow
      Springwell Lane, near Whetsone
      01 July 2016