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Avena sativa; photograph (c) Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Георгий Виноградов (Georgy Vinogradov), some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-08-19

Avena sativa L.

Oat; Common oat; Oats; Cultivated oats

Poaceae · Buryatiya, Iran +1

No habitat climate
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Summary

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grass (Avena) grown for fodder and for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural). Oats appear to have been domesticated as a secondary crop, as their seeds resembled those of other cereals closely enough for them to be included by early cultivators. Oats tolerate cold winters less well than cereals such as wheat, barley, and rye, but need less summer heat and more rain, making them important in areas such as Northwest Europe that have cool, wet summers. They can tolerate low-nutrient and acid soils. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Oat", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeBuryatiya, Iran, Iraq · introduced: Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Baleares, Corse, France, Portugal, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Sicilia, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Mali, Burundi, Ethiopia, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Northern Provinces, Altay, Irkutsk, Tuva, West Siberia, Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey, Kuwait, Oman, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, China North-Central, China Southeast, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Philippines, Norfolk Is., New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Chatham Is., New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Fiji, New Caledonia, Marquesas, Marianas, Marshall Is., Hawaii, Alaska, Greenland, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Windward Is., Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Argentina Northwest, Chile Central, Chile South, Falkland Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 1642 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (4); (c) Oscar C. González Martínez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).

Other Avena 8 in the reference

Avena abyssinica Avena abyssinica Ethiopian Oat Photo: CC BY-SA, SchubbayAvena barbata Avena barbata Slender oat Photo: CC BY, Em LamondAvena brevis Avena brevis Short oat Photo: Public domain, Daderot Avena byzantina Algerian Oat Avena fatua Avena fatua Wild oat Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевAvena nuda Avena nuda Naked oat Photo: Public domain, DaderotAvena sterilis Avena sterilis Animated oat Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaAvena strigosa Avena strigosa Bristle oat Photo: CC BY-SA, Miquel Pujol Palol

Names & registers

Also known as Avena agraria subsp. mutica; Avena agraria var. mutica; Avena algeriensis; Avena anglica; Avena byzantina subsp. pseudosativa and 203 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Buryatiya, Iran, Iraq
Wild records
none in range · 1642 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 20 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (12 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 7 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21Wikipedia's article Oat, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q12104)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 176 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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