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Bayer Code : alomy

Scientific name: Alopecurus myosuroides Hudson

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Alopecurus agrestis L.

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: black grass

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Fuchsschwanzgras ; ES : cola de zorra ; FR : vulpin des champs ; IT : coda di topo dei campi ; PT : rabo-de-raposa ; EN : black grass ; NL : duist ; DK : ager-rævehale

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Shoot rolled, cylindrical leaf sheath.

- Leaf blade 20 50 times longer than wide, leaf glabrous.

- Ligule membranous dentate, auricles absent.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 20 70 cm. Cespitose.

- Stems slender, glabrous, geniculate at base.

- Leaves with fluted lamina, often with very marked groove in middle, lower face not bright but smooth and glabrous. Leaf sheath not closed until the base, base often red.

- Inflorescence: False spike very elongated (4 8 cm), cylindrical, subdued at 2 terminals, stamens white or purple. Populations exist that are chlorotoluron resistant in Great Britain in Germany and Spain. Triazine resistant populations found in Israel.

- Risk of confusion with Apera spica venti (L.)P. Beauv.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Apera spica-venti

Ecological profile: BeneLux   Present     Germany  Present     Denmark  Present     Spain  Present     France  Present     Great Britain  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal Present    

 

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