Taxon: Avena sativa L.

Common names:

• oat   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• red oat   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – English
  
• side oat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• tree oat   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• shofan   (Source: Weeds Saudi Arabia ) – Arabic
  
• yan mai   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• avoine byzantine   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – French
  
• avoine cultivée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Hafer   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Mittelmeerhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – German
  
• Saathafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• avena   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• avena rossa   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• ōto   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• ōto-mugi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• ma-karasu-mugi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• gwiri   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• aveia   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• aveia-amarela   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – Portuguese
  
• avena   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena roja   (Source: Dict Rehm [as A. byzantina]) – Spanish
  
• havre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  
• rödhavre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Human food: beverage base   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Human food: cereal   (fide CultTropS)
  
• Human food: starch   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Avena sativa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• only cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• 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). 306.
• Bisset, N. G., ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis.
• Chaudhary, S. A. 1987. Weeds of Saudi Arabia and theb Arabian Peninsula.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Loskutov, I. G. & H. W. Rines. 2011. Chapter 3. Avena. In: Kole, C., ed., Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, cereals. 109–183.
• 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.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:83.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• 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. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Avena sativa.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Avena sativa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Avena byzantina K. Koch
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)
• (=) Avena byzantina var. anopla Mordv.
  (previously associated with 818 accessions)
• (=) Avena diffusa var. segetalis Vavilov
  
• (=) Avena diffusa var. volgensis Vavilov
  
• (=) Avena orientalis Schreb.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. aristata Schltdl.
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. brunnea Körn.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa subsp. byzantina (K. Koch) Romero Zarco
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. cinerea Körn.
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. diffusa Neilr.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. eligulata Vavilov ex Mordv.
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. flava Körn.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. grisea Körn.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. inermis Körn.
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. ligulata Vavilov ex Mordv.
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. montana Alef.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Avena sativa var. mutica Schltdl.
  (previously associated with 60 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. nigra Haller
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. obtusata Alef.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Avena sativa var. orientalis (Schreb.) Hook. f.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Avena sativa var. pugnax Alef.
  
• (=) Avena sativa var. segetalis (Vavilov) Nevski
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Avena sativa var. tristis Alef.
  
• (=) Avena volgensis (Vavilov) Nevski
  

Check other web resources for Avena sativa L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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.
• Caryopsis and spikelet: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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
• Typical panicles: National Small Grains Collection image

More:

• 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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