Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Avena barbata Brot. Fl. Lusit. 1: 108. 1804
Culms relatively slender, commonly 1 meter tall; blades mostly narrower than in A . fatua, the panicle looser, the capillary branches and pedicels flexuous; spikelets drooping, the glumes narrower than in A. fatua; florets 2, or rarely 3, the lemmas conspicuously brownish-Iiispid Ijelow, attenuate, the apex with 2 setaceous teeth about 4 mm. long, the rather slender awn about 4 cm. long.
TvpB locality: Portugal.
Distribution: Weed in fields and waste places, Washington to California, Arizona, and Mexico; native of Europe.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Spear Hitchcock, Jason Richard Swallen, Agnes Chase. 1939. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(8). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
