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About This Plant
Wild oats is an easy to grow, ornamental grass that produces large, nodding seedheads. The seedheads resemble oats, and emerge green in the spring, turning a golden brown later in the summer and eventually purple in the fall.
Plant Details
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Benefits
- Wildlife Benefits
Plant Facts
Wild oats is a larval host plant for northern pearly-eye caterpillars, which can be spotted from May to June depending on location.
Alternate Names
Northern Sea Oats, River Oats, Wood-oat
