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Floristic Inventory of the Florida Keys Database Online

Avena sativa L.
Common oat

Avena sativa

Family: Poaceae

Group: Monocot

Substrate: Terrestrial

Habit: Herb

Perennation: Annual

Native Range: Old World; widely cultivated and naturalized.

Map of select IRC data for peninsular Florida

SOUTH FLORIDA Occurrence: Present

SOUTH FLORIDA Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

SOUTH FLORIDA Cultivated Status: Cultivated

Comments: For an image of an herbarium specimen collected in Miami-Dade County by Alan Herndon in 1981, visit the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.

Synonyms: A. fatua var. sativa.

FLORIDA KEYS Occurrence: Possibly Extirpated

FLORIDA KEYS Native Status: Not Native, Naturalized

Map of select IRC data for the Florida Keys

Florida Keys History and Distribution: Reported in 1913 by John Kunkel Small for disturbed areas in the upper Keys. Sparingly naturalized in the Florida Keys and perhaprs not well established. A specimen at USF needs to be examined.

Other data on Avena sativa available from :

Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants





Avena sativa has been reported for the following habitat in THE FLORIDA KEYS :
Disturbed Upland


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Avena sativa