Wild oat may refer to:
- Common wild oat or Avena fatua
- Slender wild oat or Avena barbata
- Winter wild oat or Avena sterilis
Famous quotes containing the words wild and/or oat:
“This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Once in this wine the summer blood
Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine,
Once in this bread
The oat was merry in the wind;
Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)