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  • COMMON NAME: Spring Wild Oat
  • ARABIC: شوفان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Avena fatua L.
  • SYNONYMS: Anelytrum avenaceum Hack.
  • FAMILY: POACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Uncommon in the UAE. (Al-Ain).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:391443-1#synonyms https://www.weedscout.com/Flughafer-Avena-fatua-L_unkrautfibel1486309815.html https://agroex.ru/harms/sornyaki/ovsyug_oves_pustoy_avena_fatua_l_/
It is used as animal food, and for food.

Annual grasses. Culms 40-80 cm high, erect to geniculately ascending, glabrous. Leaf sheaths pilose to glabrous. Ligule 4-6 mm long, obtuse. Leaf-blades up to 30 cm long, linear. Inflorescence a spreading panicle; branches patent. Spikelets 22-28 mm long, with 2-3 florets. Rachilla disarticulating above glumes and between florets. Glumes subequal, lanceolate, acute, 7-9 veined, lower 22-25 mm long, upper 24-27 mm long. Lemma 16-20 mm long, 7-veined, lanceolate, mostly bifid, dorsally awned, hairy in lower half; awn 20-35 mm long, geniculate, twisted below. Palea 13-16 mm long, ciliate on keels. 

Flowering from February to April.
A weed around cultivation, sometimes in desert.
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