Oat
ಓಟ್ಸ್जईபுல்லரிசி
Avena sativa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 91 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Poaceae
Also called Common oat, Common Oat
Formerly Avena algeriensis, Avena distans, Avena geogica, Avena glabrata, and 21 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen from W. AsiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Malayalam
- ഓട്ട്സ്
- French
- avoine, Avoine cultivée
- German
- Hafer, Echter-Hafer, Saat-Hafer
- Bosnian
- Zob
- Croatian
- Zob
- Chinese
- 燕麥, 野麦子, 燕麦
- Korean
- 귀리
- Afrikaans
- Hawer
- Aragonese
- Cevada, civada
- Arabic
- ﺷﻮﻓﺎن
- Asturian
- alcacer
- Azerbaijani
- Əkin yulafı
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Avena sativa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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