§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Avena
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 417 counties across 38 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- Low
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- High
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 6–24 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–7.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Bunch
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 4 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Spring
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 12,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- High
- Graze palatability
- High
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- High
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 417 counties across 38 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 9 I ▾
California view state ↗ 47 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- El Dorado 06017
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Imperial 06025
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mariposa 06043
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Modoc 06049
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Benito 06069
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Emmons 38029
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Griggs 38039
- Logan 38047
- McKenzie 38053
- Mercer 38057
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Pierce 38069
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Sheridan 38083
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Walsh 38099
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Ohio view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 16 I ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 50 I ▾
- Andrews 48003
- Bexar 48029
- Brazos 48041
- Brown 48049
- Childress 48075
- Coryell 48099
- Dallas 48113
- Dimmit 48127
- Ector 48135
- Ellis 48139
- Fayette 48149
- Fort Bend 48157
- Freestone 48161
- Frio 48163
- Gonzales 48177
- Grimes 48185
- Harris 48201
- Hays 48209
- Houston 48225
- Jack 48237
- Jasper 48241
- Jefferson 48245
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Lampasas 48281
- Lee 48287
- Leon 48289
- Madison 48313
- Matagorda 48321
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Midland 48329
- Montgomery 48339
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Nueces 48355
- Pecos 48371
- Refugio 48391
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- San Patricio 48409
- San Saba 48411
- Tarrant 48439
- Terrell 48443
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Walker 48471
- Washington 48477
- Williamson 48491
Utah view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 16 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 18 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/AVFA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2705297 ↗Record version
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