Species · Poaceae

Oat

Avena sativa. Poaceae, genus Avena. What this plant is called and where it is recorded, plus the published numbers the keystone holds so far.

Rank
species
Names
1 in 1 languages
Numbers
3 (3 with a source)
Keystone status
partial

Names

Scientific synonyms (120): Avena agraria var. mutica Brot., Avena algeriensis Trab., Avena anglica Roem. & Schult., Avena byzantina var. thellungiana (Malzev) Tab.Morais, Avena cinerea Roem. & Schult., Avena dispermis Mill., Avena distans Schur, Avena fatua f. brachytricha Thell., Avena fatua f. glaberrima Thell., Avena fatua f. macrathera Thell., Avena fatua f. setulosa Thell., Avena fatua subsp. macrantha (Hack.) Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. nodipilosa Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. praegravis (E.Krause) Malzev, Avena fatua subsp. sativa (L.) Thell., Avena fatua var. contracta (Neilr.) Thell., Avena fatua var. glaberrima (Thell.) Malzev, Avena fatua var. macrotricha Malzev, Avena fatua var. microtricha Malzev, Avena fatua var. pilifera Malzev, Avena fatua var. pilosa (Koeler) Malzev, Avena fatua var. sativa (L.) Hausskn., Avena fatua var. subuniflora Trab., Avena fatua var. transiens Hausskn., Avena flava Roem. & Schult., Avena fusca Schur, Avena fusciflora Schur, Avena geogica Zuccagni, Avena georgiana Roem. & Schult., Avena glabrata Hausm., Avena grandis Nevski, Avena heteromalla Haller, Avena hungarica Lucá, Avena macrantha (Hack.) Nevski, Avena mutata Samp., Avena mutica Krock., Avena nodipilosa (Malzev) Malzev, Avena orientalis Schreb., Avena orientalis subsp. mutica Schübl. & G.Martens, Avena orientalis var. arundinacea Peterm., and more.

In other languages

  • en: common oat

Where it is recorded

Taxonomy record sources: POWO (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.

What the sources say it wants

Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.

Whole cycle

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, end of season (ratio)0.25published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, initial stage (ratio)0.3published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, mid-season (ratio)1.15published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Keystone status

Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.

Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.