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Avena sativa (oats; oatgrass (common); oat; common oat; Common oats; wild oats)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural, unlike other cereals and pseudocereals). While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed.
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Infraspecies

Avena sativa fatuoides
Avena sativa sativa
Avena sativa var. cinerea
Avena sativa var. leiantha
Avena sativa var. sativa
Avena sativa var. subpilosa
Avena sativa var. subuniflora

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  None
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  90 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  High
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Summer
Growth Form [1]  Bunch
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Rapid
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Wind
Propagation [1]  Seed
Root Depth [1]  8 inches (20 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  None
Seed Vigor [1]  High
Seeds Per [1]  19400 / lb (42770 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Erect
Structure [4]  Grass
Usage [2]  The straw has a wide range of uses such as for bio-mass, fibre, mulch, paper-making, building board and thatching; It has also been used as a stuffing material for mattresses and these are said to be of great benefit for sufferers from rheumatism; Some caution is advised in its use as a mulch since oat straw can infest strawberries with stem and bulb eelworm. Oat hulls are basic in production of furfural, a chemical intermediate in the production of many industrial products such as nylon, lubricating oils, butadiene, phenolic resin glues, and rubber tread compositions; Oats hulls supply about 22% of the required furfural raw materials. Rice hulls, corn cobs, bagasse, and beech woods make up much of the remainder; Oats hulls are also used in the manufacture of construction boards, cellulose pulp and as a filter in breweries; A handful of the grains, thrown into the bath water, will help to keep the skin soft because of their emollient action; An extract of oat straw prevents feeding by the striped cucumber beetle;
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  None
Flower Color [1]  Yellow
Foliage Color [1]  Green
Fruit Color [1]  Brown
Height [2]  35 inches (0.9 m)
Width [2]  3.937 inches (0.1 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 4 Low Temperature: -30 F° (-34.4 C°) → -20 F° (-28.9 C°)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
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External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
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♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7FEEDING ECOLOGY OF PINTAIL HENS DURING REPRODUCTION, GARY L. KRAPU, The Auk 91: 278-290. April 1974
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9Dipodomys elator, Dilford C. Carter, Wm. David Webster, J. Knox Jones, Jr., Clyde Jones, and Royal D. Suttkus, Mammalian Species No. 232, pp. 1-3 (1985)
♦ 10Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 11Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 12New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 13Perognathus merriami, Troy L. Best and Marian P. Skupski, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 473, pp. 1-7 (1994)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0