Click on image to enlarge. Wild oat, a winter annual, has seedlings with hairy foliage, like hare barley . However, wild oat keeps the seed from which it is growing for a long time. Mature wild oat plants are easily distinguished by their open panicled, nodding inflorescence.
Wild oat has a tall, pointed ligule with toothed margins and no auricles.
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