Cultivated Oat - introduced (*Avena sativa

Other names: Oat.

Native to the Mediterranean area. Annual. C3.

Family. Poaceae (Grass family).

Identification:

• it has an open panicle
• the glumes are longer than the lemma body
• the spikelets have 2 or 3 lemmas
• the leaves are flat
• the ligules are 1.5-7m long and hairless or minutely hairy
• the lemmas are hairless (or with a small hair tuft at the lemma base)
• the lemmas may be awnless or awned, and the lemmas have short teeth
• the two lemmas fall as a unit.

It is sometimes a weed of roadside verges.

savita: that which is planted for crops.