Taxon: Avena fatua L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AK°, AZ°, CO°, ID°, KS°, MI*°, MO°, MT°, ND°, NM°, OK*°, SC°, SD°, TX°, UT°, WA°, WI°, WY°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• spring wild oat   (Source: Weed CIBA ) – English
  
• wild oat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• dinbaan   (Source: Weeds Saudi Arabia ) – Arabic
  
• zommeir   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• avoine folle   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• folle avoine   (Source: L Noms French ed6 ) – French
  
• Flughafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Windhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cha-hiki   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• karasu-mugi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• aveia-brava   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• aveia-fátua   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• aveia-selvagem   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• avena loca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena silvestre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• flyghavre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Gene sources: drought resistance for oat   (fide Agron Monog 33:618. 1992)
  
• Gene sources: potential for disease resistance in oat   (fide Agron Monog 33:618. 1992)
  
• Gene sources: potential for high yields in oat   (fide Agron Monog 33:618. 1992)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of oat   (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 3:144. 2011)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968; V. N. Soldatov & I. G. Loskutov 1991; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Avena fatua from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [c. & s.]; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Croatia; Italy; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized throughout temperate regions

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Baum, B. R. 1977. Oats: wild and cultivated. A monograph of the genus Avena (Poaceae). 280.
• Baum, B. R. 1991. (995) Proposal to conserve the name Avena fatua L. for the common wild oats (Poaceae). Taxon 40:132–134.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Brummitt, R. K. 1994. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 40. Taxon 43:114. [conservation proposal not recommended].
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Chaudhary, S. A. 1987. Weeds of Saudi Arabia and theb Arabian Peninsula.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 1996. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Leggett, J. M. 1992. Classification and speciation in Avena. In H. G. Marshall & M. E. Sorrells, eds., Oat science and technology. In: American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy; a series of monographs. 33:34.
• Loskutov, I. G. & H. W. Rines. 2011. Chapter 3. Avena. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 109–183.
• Loskutov, I. G. 2001. Interspecific crosses in the genus Avena L. Russian J. Genet. 37:467–475.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Romero Zarco, C. 1996. Sinopsis del género Avena L. (Poaceae, Aveneae) en España peninsular y Baleares. Lagascalia 18:183–185.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Soldatov, V. N. & I. G. Loskutov. 1991. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 86:39–40.
• Stubbendieck, J. et al. 1992. North American range plants, ed. 4.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Avena fatua.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Avena fatua.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Avena fatua.

Synonyms:

• (=) Avena fatua var. glabrata Peterm.
  
• (=) Avena fatua var. glabrescens Coss.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Avena fatua L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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