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Avena fatua, commonly known as wild oat, spring wild oat, Flug-Hafer, avena loca, or Tuulekaer, is a species of annual, herbaceous plant. It belongs to the family Poaceae and the genus Avena. The species is classified within the order Poales, class Liliopsida, phylum Tracheophyta, and kingdom Plantae. Its scientific name is cited as Avena fatua L.
The taxon range includes Shanghai, Beijing, Fujian, and China. It is noted as invasive to Shanghai. According to the IUCN Red List, its conservation status was assessed as Least Concern in 2016. The plant has uses as a medicinal plant, food, and fodder. Records of the species are held by institutions such as the University of Alberta Museums, with occurrences documented in Canada and Mexico.
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Species
Least ConcernAvena fatua
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
野燕麦（学名：Avena fatua）为禾本科燕麦属下的一种植物，为一种常见的杂草。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6,310
- With media
- 3,919
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, ENCB-IPN, FA-UAS, DCBS-DICTUS-USON, CICB-UATX, CP
- Recorded in
- Canada, Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
Avena fatua is a species of grass in the oat genus. It is known as the common wild oat. Like fellow wild oat species A. sterilis, it bears 42 chromosomes, and its seeds shatter at maturity for yearly seeding. This oat is native to Eurasia (particularly the eastern Mediterranean) but it has been introduced to most of the other temperate regions of the world. It is naturalized in some areas and considered a noxious weed in others.
A. fatua is a typical oat in appearance, a green grass with hollow, erect stems 1 to 4 feet (0.30 to 1.22 m) tall bearing nodding structures – panicles – of spikelets. The long dark green leaves are up to 1 centimetre (0.39 in) wide and rough due to small hairs. The seedlings are also hairy. The seed kernel is thinner, longer, darker and hairy when compared with the seed of the common cultivated oat (A. sativa). This species and other wild oats can become troublesome in prairie agriculture when it invades and lowers the quality of a field crop, or competes for resources with the crop plants. It takes very few wild oat plants to cause a significant reduction in the yield of a wheat or cultivated oat field.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Avena fatua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.