Avena

The oats are a kind ( Avena ) of herbaceous plants of the family of the Poacée S, subfamily of the Pooideae . This kind includes/understands about fifteen species originating in the old world (Europe, Asia and North Africa).

One of the species, the cultivated Avoine ( Avena sativa ) is largely cultivated like Céréale for its seeds primarily intended for the animal feeds. Several others are bad grasses, adventitious of the cereal cultures all the more difficult to fight which they are close to the cultivated species and for which it does not exist Herbicide S selective.

The various oats species, including those cultivated, are used as food with the Larve S of certain species of Lépidoptère of which the Noctuelle basiliaire ( Apamea sordens ) and the C-black ( Xestia c-nigrum ).

Principal species

Avena abyssinica
Avena barbata
Avena brevis
Avena fatua - Wild oats
Avena maroccana
Avena nuda
Avena occidentalis
Avena pubescens
Avena pratensis
Avena sativa - cultivated Oats
Avena spicata
Avena sterilis
Avena strigosa

Be-X-old: Авёс

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