Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : amagr
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Amaranthus angustifolius Lam., Amaranthus sylvestris Vill.
Classification: Amaranthaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: short-tepalled pigweed
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Griechischer Amarant ; ES : ; FR : amarante sylvestre ; IT : amaranto blito-minore ; PT : tristes ; EN : short-tepalled pigweed ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptical, with rounded tip, more or less petiolate.
- Entire leaves, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin.
Height: 20-70 cm.
- Stem erect to prostrate, with clustered, glabrous.
- Leaves glabrous, with shiny lamina and plain margin, ovate or lanceolate pointed or angular.
- Flowers greenish in tuft within axillary glomerules, leafy and often near top, bracts as long as the restricted sepals with white boarder.
- Fruits wrinkled, ovate, rounded, opening cross circular.
- Plant refreshing emollient and slightly astringent. Species rare in crops.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Present
Rare
Present
Present
