Wild oat – information and weed control

Avena fatua (Wild oat) is a paniculate gramineous weed very similar to cultivated oats. It prefers heavy, calcium-rich, cool, moist, clayey, and loamy soils.

The straws are 50-120 cm high.

The cotyledons are robust, colored in dark green.

The true leaves are linear, the youngest ones are rolled, dark green. Especially the first leaves are without stipules. The limb and the sheath have hairs at their base, but there are also leaves without hairs. 

    
Wild oat flower is in the form of spikelets, usually with three flowers, and it blooms in the form of a panicle with branches that change their angle at each node (the smallest branches are almost horizontal, and all flowers have a black edge).

The germination season is in spring, and the germination depth is up to 20 cm.

The flowering period is from June to August, and the plant produces between 50-1000 seeds.

It is recommended to use approved herbicides to control it, depending on the crop.

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