Avena L.

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Avena L.

• Description

  Description - Spikelets large, 2 to 4-flowered ; glumes equal, many-nerved, papery, exceeding the florets ; lemmas bideutate, bearing a dorsal awn, the awn sometimes rudimentary.

• Common Names

  oat