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Avena nuda (naked oat)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Avena nuda (hulless oat, naked oat) is a species of grass with edible seeds in the oat genus Avena. When threshed, the hull separates quite readily from the grain.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Annual
Pollinators [1]  Wind
Structure [3]  Grass
Usage [1]  The straw has a wide range of uses such as for bio-mass, fibre, mulch, paper-making and thatching; Some caution is advised in its use as a mulch since oat straw can infest strawberries with stem and bulb eelworm.
Height [1]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Width [1]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Mostly Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist
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External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0