Scientific name:
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Avena sativa L. |
Family name latin:
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Poaceae |
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| Description: |
A cereal with numerous types; hexaploid, 2n = 42; an up to 150 cm high meadow grass; annual; flowering season : VI - VII; the basic form is the wild oat (Avena fatua L.), originating from Asia. Introduced in the Bronze Age as a cultivated plant; today more commonly used as feed;
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| Occurence: |
Occuring up to the 65th degree of latitude, cultivated up to a height of 1400 m and often gone wild;
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| Related species: |
Avena fatua L., wild oats; a weed on cultivated fields (VI - VIII); Avena strigosa Schreb., naked oat; earlier culivated, today a rare field weed (VI - VIII);
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| Allergy trigger: |
Pollen, approx. 35 µm;
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| Invasions path: |
Inhalative (June - July);
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| Allergology: |
A mostly self-pollinating species, eminating only small amount of pollen into the air; thus of little clinical relevance; the species ought only to lead to a sensitization in exceptional cases;
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| Clinical relevance: |
light
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| Cross reactivities: |
Occurrence possible- Cocksfoot
- Rye-grass
- Ryegrass, perennial
- Timothy
- Blue grass, (Kentucky)
- Corn
- Barley
- Wheat, common
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