delirium florens
Avena sterilis
The animated, sterile or wild oat is a species of grass weed whose seeds are edible. It is likely an ancestor, and in many places a direct competitor, of modern agricultural varieties of oat. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin and most of Asia. The species is widely naturalized and grows on all continents except Antarctica. In some parts it is registered as invasive and in many parts seen as a pest, because it tends to grow in areas and conditions cultivated oats are grown and is host to pests and pathogens that also threaten commercial cultivation.
I have not found an explanation as to why the word sterile appears in the scientific and a variety of common names. However, many common names for the species (in English the animated part of animated oat) refer to the movement of its panicle in the wind. A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence, while an inflorescence is a set of flowers that together form the shape of one flower.
Avena sterilis
The animated, sterile or wild oat is a species of grass weed whose seeds are edible. It is likely an ancestor, and in many places a direct competitor, of modern agricultural varieties of oat. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin and most of Asia. The species is widely naturalized and grows on all continents except Antarctica. In some parts it is registered as invasive and in many parts seen as a pest, because it tends to grow in areas and conditions cultivated oats are grown and is host to pests and pathogens that also threaten commercial cultivation.
I have not found an explanation as to why the word sterile appears in the scientific and a variety of common names. However, many common names for the species (in English the animated part of animated oat) refer to the movement of its panicle in the wind. A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence, while an inflorescence is a set of flowers that together form the shape of one flower.