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Oats
Avena
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...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.53
Garden of Health
1507 · p.44
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.219
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.217
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.256
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.372
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.357
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.571
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.492
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.48
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.99
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52697.