Oatgrass is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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Arrhenatherum
''Arrhenatherum'', commonly called oat-grass or button-grass, is a genus of Eurasian and North African plants in the Poaceae, grass family.
Description
Wild forms can resemble avena, wild oat (''Avena'') or festuca, fescue (''Festuca''). Oat-gra ...
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Avenula
''Avenula'' is a genus of Eurasian flowering plants in the grass family. Over 100 names have been proposed for species, subspecies, varieties, and other infraspecific taxa within ''Avenula'', but only one species is accepted. The others names are ...
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Danthonia californica
''Danthonia californica'' is a species of grass known by the common name California oatgrass. This plant is native to two separate regions of the Americas, western North America from California to Saskatchewan, and Chile.
Description
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Trisetum
''Trisetum'' is a genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family, widespread in temperate, subarctic, and alpine habitats in much of the world. Oatgrass is a common name for plants in this genus.
Species
''Trisetum'' formerly included over 70 spec ...
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Oats
The oat (''Avena sativa''), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural). Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop, as their seed ...
, young plants of which may be referred to as "oat grass"
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