Avena sterilis
| Winter wild oat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Avena |
| Species: | A. sterilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Avena sterilis L. | |
Avena sterilis (Animated oat, Sterile oat, Wild oat, Wild red oat, Winter wild oat; syn. Avena ludoviciana Durieu; Avena sterilis ssp. ludoviciana (Durieu) Gillet & Magne in Federal Noxious Weed Disseminules of the U.S.) is a species of grass weed, and its seeds are edible.