Animated Oat / شوفان عَقيم / / خافور

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Avena sterilis L.

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Edibility and Usage

Edibility

Edible

Edible part

Seeds

Preparation

Cooked
Dessert
Flour
Raw
Salads

Blooming period

March to May

Foraging period

April to May

Seed collection period

May to July

Description

Perenniality

Annual

Petal colour

Green

Leaf type

Entire

Life form

Annual

Scientifc data

Genus

Avena L.

Family

Poaceae

Wikidata item

Q1668559

GBIF Item

Avena sterilis L. (2705286)

Conservation status (IUCN)

Least concern

References

Machaka Houri, N., Houri, A.(2014). Wild Flowers of Lebanon with Special Focus on Key Biodiversity Areas.Beirut:Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
Houri, A., Machaka Houri, N. (2001). photographic guide to wild flowers of Lebanon. Beirut: Chemaly & Chemaly.(English and Arabic)
Al Sheikh, B. (2019). Checklist and Ecological Data Base of Wild Plants of the West Bank - Palestine (Arabic).
Avena sterilis L. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-27.
Rhodes, L., Bradley, I., Zair, W. & Maxted, N. 2016. Avena sterilis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T172204A19395364. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T172204A19395364.en. Accessed on 27 July 2022.
Plants For A Future. Avena sterilis L. (2022, July 27).
Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
عراف، شكري. الأرض، الأنسان، والجهد. الجليل: جليل للتجليد، 1993.
Hadas, Rivka, and Alexandra Sirota. “An Overview of the Goals and Functions of the Israeli Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops.” Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 54, no. 3 (January 1, 2006): 149–56.

Citation

Avena sterilis L. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/820 accessed via barari.org on 2/18/2026.