Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : amaal
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Amaranthus littoralis Hornemann.
Classification: Amaranthaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: white amaranth
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Weißer Amarant ; ES : bledo blanco ; FR : amarante blanche ; IT : amaranto bianco ; PT : bredo-branco ; EN : white amaranth ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptical club shaped, more or less petiolate.
- Entire leaves, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin (lower face coloured in red purple).
- Height: 10 50 cm. glabrous. Stem erect, sometime prostate, very branched, generally glabrous, whitish
- Leaves more or less glabrous, with margin wavy, white small (3 5 x 1 2 cm).
- Flowers: green colourless sharp and rigid, outgrowing the 3 sepals, disposed in tuft often by second axil of leaves. Tufts often adjacent.
- Fruit : dehiscent.
- Triazine resistant populations exist in Spain.*
- Risk of confusion at the seedling stage with all other species of Amaranthus genus.
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Amaranthus
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
Present
Present
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