Avena strigosa

Culms erect, to 150 cm high. Leaves glabrous; blade finely scabrous, to 40 cm long and 12 mm wide; ligule membranous, to 5 mm long. Inflorescence a slender, contracted panicle to 30 cm long. Spikelets 2–3-flowered; glumes lanceolate, 14–22 mm long, 7–9-nerved; lemma narrow-lanceolate, 16–26 mm long (including the 5–10 mm long, unevenly bifid apical awns), glabrous or with a few silky hairs about the point of insertion of the awn or near the callus; awn 20–35 mm long, inserted about halfway up main part of lemma; palea reaching to within 2–5 mm of setiform part of lemma. Florets falling as a unit or remaining within glumes at maturity. Flowers Dec.–Jan.