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Avena sativa · Poaceae · all Avena records · also called Avena sativa · Wikipedia

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Form
grass
Mature height
~2 ft
Water need
moderate
Rated in
Global
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Mixed evidence — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Global

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY.
Introduced / established
51 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Only uncertain or inapplicable hardiness rows are cited; no primary zone is projected.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Reported invasive here
3 ecological invasive reports.
How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

51

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

51 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Alaska (AK)
  • Alabama (AL)
  • Arkansas (AR)
  • Arizona (AZ)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • District of Columbia (DC)
  • Florida (FL)
  • Georgia (GA)
  • Hawaii (HI)
  • Iowa (IA)
  • Idaho (ID)
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Indiana (IN)
  • Kansas (KS)
  • Kentucky (KY)
  • Louisiana (LA)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maryland (MD)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Missouri (MO)
  • Mississippi (MS)
  • Montana (MT)
  • North Carolina (NC)
  • North Dakota (ND)
  • Nebraska (NE)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New Mexico (NM)
  • Nevada (NV)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Oklahoma (OK)
  • Oregon (OR)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Puerto Rico (PR)
  • Rhode I. (RI)
  • South Carolina (SC)
  • South Dakota (SD)
  • Tennessee (TN)
  • Texas (TX)
  • Utah (UT)
  • Virginia (VA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wisconsin (WI)
  • West Virginia (WV)
  • Wyoming (WY)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Plant hardiness evidence

These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

Listed without a rating (7)
Corroboration (7 rows from 1 source)

  • FLAMITS: FLAMmability plant traiTS database — Dryad / Global Ecology and Biogeography · Dryad version 9 · original source Corroboration Trait database lineage: meta-aggregator

    7 cited rows from this source; its identity, lineage and tier are stated once.

    • Primary study Sahila2023: Sahila, A., Boutchiche, H., Viegas, D. X., Reis, L., & Zekri, N. (2023). A comparative study of the combustion dynamics and flame properties of dead Mediterranean plants. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 32, 979-988.

      Shared row context: plant part whole plant; fuel dead; predrying no; device burning bench; site Sahila2023-1; sampling ND.

      • Shared measurement context: Combustibility measurement.

        • “flame height (cm): 150”

          FLAMITS record 18033.

        • “mass loss rate (g/s): 7”

          FLAMITS record 18034.

        • “maximum flame temperature (°C): 334”

          FLAMITS record 18035.

        • “calorific value (kcal/kg): 5374.03”

          FLAMITS record 18043.

      • Shared measurement context: Sustainability measurement.

        • “flaming duration (s): 296”

          FLAMITS record 18036.

        • “flaming duration (s): 230”

          FLAMITS record 18042.

      • “time to flaming (s): 25”

        FLAMITS record 18037; Ignitability measurement.

Fire-resistant grasss instead

tall fescue
Festuca arundinacea tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceum fox sedge
Carex vulpinoidea woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus prairie cordgrass
Spartina pectinata longhair sedge
Carex comosa
Same genus in the directory · the Avena group page

Last verified 2026-08-25. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Avena sativa (Avena sativa). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/avena-sativa/. Last verified 2026-08-25.