Common wild oat, Avena loca

Description:

Possibly Avena fatua. it is a species of grass in the oat genus. This oat is native to Eurasia. It is a typical oat in appearance, a green grass with hollow, erect stems 1 to 4 feet tall bearing nodding panicles of spikelets. The long dark green leaves are up to a centimeter wide and rough due to small hairs. The seedlings are also hairy. This and other wild oats can become troublesome in prairie agriculture when it invades and lowers the quality of a field crop. It takes very few wild oat plants to cause a significant reduction in the yield of a wheat or cultivated oat field, even though the seeds are a type of oat.

Habitat:

Clearing in a Holm oak and pine tree forest

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/160 sec.; f/14; ISO Speed Rating: 200. Exposure Bias: 0 EV. Focal Length: 90.0 mm.