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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : agogi

Scientific name: Agrostemma githago L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Lychnis githago (L.) Scopoli

Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: corn cockle

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Kornrade ; ES : negrillon ; FR : nielle des blés ; IT : gittaione comune ; PT : nigela-dos-trigos ; EN : corn cockle ; NL : Bolderik ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with rounded tip, more or less

petiolate.

- Entire leaves, lanceolate, more or less dentate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-100 cm.

- Stem erect, branched on top. Greenish axis without hair.

- Lower leaves disposed in rosette. Sessile leaves, narrowly lanceolate to linear. Grey hair appressed, thick and silky.

- Flowers red-purple rarely white of about 30 cm. Petals shorter than sepals, and very short or slightly notched. Calyx 3-7 cm with ovoid oblong tube and linear pointed teeth.

- Fruits: capsules with 5 teeth, without carpophore, nor partition. Teeth long, up to 1/7 of capsule.

- Plant which was feared in cereals, its toxic seeds making flour unfit for consumption. Species decreasing in crops.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Rare     Germany  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Rare     Italy  Rare     Portugal  Present    

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