Taxon: Avena sterilis L.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

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:

FL(as Avena ludoviciana)*, FL(including A. ludoviciana)*, MA*, NC*, OK*°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• animated oat   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• sterile oat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• wild oat   (Source: USDA/APHIS ) – English
  
• wild red oat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• winter wild oat   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• avoine animée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• avoine stérile   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Winterhafer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• aveão   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• avena caballuna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena estéril   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena loca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: disease resistance; high yields for oat   (fide Agron Monogr 33:617. 1992)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Avena sterilis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

      Native:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.w.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Baum, B. R. 1977. Oats: wild and cultivated. A monograph of the genus Avena (Poaceae). (Monog Avena) 334.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list. (USDA/APHIS)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta). (L Azores)
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• Vazquez, F. M. et al. 1995. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 52:185. [discusses typification].
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Avena sterilis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Avena sterilis. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Avena ludoviciana Durieu
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (=) Avena sterilis subsp. ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other databases for Avena sterilis L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org

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.

Jump to GrainGenes: A database for Triticeae and Avena

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?6148 (09 February 2010)

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