Difference between revisions of "Avena"

Revision as of 12:08, 29 January 2010

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names
	Avena >

If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!

Read about Avena in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Avena (the old Latin name). Gramineae. Oats. Mostly annuals with open panicle and large spikelets. Spikelets 2-6-fld.; rachilla bearded below the florets; glumes about equal, large and membranaceous, many- nerved, usually as long as the spikelet; lemmas indurated, bidentate at apex, bearing a stout twisted awn on the back (this often straight or wanting in the cultivated oat).—Species about 50, of the temperate or cooler regions of the world. Scarcely grown as ornamental subjects. A. elatior-Arrhenatherum elatius. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

w:Avena. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
Avena QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)

This article is a stub. You can help Gardenology.org by expanding it.

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 Spikelets 2-6-fld.; rachilla bearded below the florets; glumes about equal, large and membranaceous, many- nerved, usually as long as the spikelet; lemmas indurated, bidentate at apex, bearing a stout twisted awn on the back (this often straight or wanting in the cultivated oat).—Species about 50, of the temperate or cooler regions of the world. Scarcely grown as ornamental subjects.
+A. elatior-Arrhenatherum elatius.
 }}