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Taxon: Avena sterilis L.

Genus: Avena
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Pooideae tribe: Poeae subtribe: Aveninae.
Nomen number: 6148
Place of publication: Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:118. 1762
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 29-Jan-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 25-Sep-2008
Species priority site is: National Small Grains Collection (NSGC).
Accessions: 8224 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘OAT’ ) or .


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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 Invaders Database System

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
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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)
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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

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Synonyms:


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:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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

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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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