Wild oats

	Wild oats
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Plants
Kingdom :	Green plants
Department:	Flowering
Grade:	Monocotyledonous
Order :	Lilianae
Order:	Melliferous
Family:	Cereals
Subfamily :	Bluegrass
Tribe :	Bluegrass
Subtribe :	Oats
Gender:	Oats
View:	Wild oats
International scientific name
	Avena fatua L. , 1753

Empty oats , or oats ( lat.Avena fatua ) - an annual plant ; a species of the genus Oats of the family Cereals, or Bluegrass ( Poaceae ) - a malicious weed of cereal crops .

Distribution and habitat

It grows everywhere in Eurasia , North Africa , is listed in North America and the Southern Hemisphere . Hardly eradicated weed . Significantly reduces the yield of spring crops, drains the soil.

Botanical Description

The root system of the plant is fibrous, penetrating the soil to a depth of one and a half meters. The shoot forms a bush of 2-3 dozen stems, often exceeding a height of 100-110 cm, a panicle reaches a length of 30 cm. One copy can give up to 600 grains ^[2] . Seeds retain viability for 3-4 years ^[3] .

Unlike oats, it has small oval depressions at the base of the caryopsis, in the shape of a horseshoe, with a roller crowned with hairs along the edge ^[3] .

Meaning and Application

Hardly eradicated weeds affecting cereal crops. Also, oats can be crossed with sowing oats , reducing the value of varieties . Young shoots can go to feed livestock . However, feeding un-ground oatmeal grains, together with stiff hairs and rough awns, can cause inflammation of the mucous membranes of the digestive and respiratory systems of animals ^[3] .

Taxonomy

Avena fatua L. , 1753, Species Plantarum 1: 80.

Synonyms

Anelytrum avenaceum hack .
Avena ambigua Schoenb. nom. inval.
Avena cultiformis ( Malzev ) Malzev
Avena hybrida Peterm.
Avena intermedia Lindgr. nom. illeg.
Avena intermedia T. Lestib.
Avena japonica Steud.
Avena lanuginosa gilib.
Avena meridionalis (Malzev) Roshev.
Avena nigra Wallr.
Avena occidentalis durieu
Avena patens St.-Lag. nom. illeg.
Avena pilosa Scop. nom. illeg.
Avena sativa subsp. fatua (L.) Fiori
Avena sativa var. fatua (L.) Fiori
Avena sativa subsp. fatua (L.) Thell.
Avena sativa var. sericea Hook.f.
Avena septentrionalis malzev
Avena sterilis Delile ex Boiss. nom. inval.
Avena sterilis var. glabrescens dur. ex douin
Avena vilis Wallr.

Notes

↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
↑ TSB, 1974 .
↑ ¹ ² ³ BDT, 2013 .

Literature

Vivsyug // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : in 66 volumes (65 volumes and 1 additional) / Ch. ed. O. Yu. Schmidt . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1928. - T. X.
Ovsyug // Nikko - Otoliths. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1974. - (The Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [30 vol.] / Ch. Ed. A. M. Prokhorov ; 1969-1978, vol. 18).
Ovsyug // Nikolay Kuzansky - Ocean. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2013. - ( Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 23). - ISBN 978-5-85270-360-6 .
Gubanov I.A. et al. 105. Avena fatua L. ( A. septentrionalis Malz.) - Oat empty or Ovsyug // Illustrated identifier of plants in Central Russia. In 3 t . - M .: T-in scientific. ed. KMK, Institute of Technology. ISS., 2002. - T. 1. Ferns, horsetails, crowns, gymnosperms, angiosperms (monocotyledons). - S. 199. - ISBN 8-87317-091-6 .
Maltsev A.I. Ovsyugi and oats // Vses. Inst. nerds. - L. , 1930.

Links

Avena fatua : Tropicos taxon information.

[1] For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .

[_43fae33e08e1e581-2] TSB, 1974 .

[_382ec7a1eaf3fecf-3] ¹ ² ³ BDT, 2013 .