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:

AL*, 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
  
• oves besplodny   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• oves sredizemnomorskij   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• avena caballuna   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena estéril   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• avena loca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• storhavre   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: disease resistance for oat   (fide Agron Monogr 33:617. 1992)
  
• Gene sources: high yields for oat   (fide Agron Monogr 33:617. 1992)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of oat   (fide Wild Crop Rel Cer 3:162. 2011)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: 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:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; 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
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia; Lithuania; Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Croatia; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 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). 334.
• Brown, C. M. & F. L. Patterson. 1992. Conventional oat breeding. In: American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy; a series of monographs. 33:613–656.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Drossou, A. et al. 2004. Genome and species relationships in genus Avena based on RAPD and AFLP molecular markers. Theor. Appl. Genet. 109:48–54.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Ladizinsky, G. 2012. Chapter 1. Oat morphology and taxonomy. In: Ladizinsky, G., Studies in oat evolution. SpringerBriefs in Agriculture. 1:7. [mentions interfertility among Avena sativa, A. sterilis, and A. fatua].
• 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. 33:47.
• 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.
• Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Plant Protection and Quarantine Office. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Federal noxious weed list (on-line resource).
• 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. 1994. Las avenas del grupo “sterilis” en la Peninsula Ibérica y regiones adyacentes del SW de Europa y NW de Africa. Lagascalia 17:277–309.
• Romero Zarco, C. 1996. Sinopsis del género Avena L. (Poaceae, Aveneae) en España peninsular y Baleares. Lagascalia 18:181–182.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
• Vázquez, F. M. et al. 1995. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 52:185. [discusses typification].
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Avena sterilis.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Avena sterilis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Avena atherantha C. Presl
  
• (=) Avena barbata subsp. atherantha (C. Presl) Rocha Afonso
  
• (=) Avena ludoviciana Durieu
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• (=) Avena persica Steud.
  
• (=) Avena sterilis subsp. atherantha (C. Presl) H. Scholz
  
• (=) Avena sterilis subsp. ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources 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
• 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.
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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