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Avena
Also called Oats, Wild Oats
Avena is a genus of grasses, including the cultivated oat (Avena sativa), grown for grain and fodder. Oats are cool-season annual grasses that do best in cool, moist conditions and well-drained soil.
Avena is a genus of Eurasian and African plants in the grass family. Collectively known as the oats, they include some species which have been cultivated for thousands of years as a food source for humans and livestock. They are widespread throughout Europe, Asia and northwest Africa. Several species have become naturalized in many parts of the world, and are regarded as invasive weeds where they compete with crop production. All oats have edible seeds, though they are small and hard to harvest in most species.
Avena species, including cultivated oats, are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including rustic shoulder-knot and setaceous Hebrew character.
Abyssinian oat · Short Oat · Algerian Oat · Wild oat · Naked oat · Oat · Lopsided oat
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