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Bayer Code : angar

Scientific name: Anagallis arvensis L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Anagallis phoenicea Scopoli, Anagallis platyphyllos Baudo , Anagallis arvensis phoenicea Gouan

Classification: Primulaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: scarlet pimpernel

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Gauchheil ; ES : murajes ; FR : mouron rouge ; IT : centonchi dei campi ; PT : morriao ; EN : scarlet pimpernel ; NL : rood guichelheil, NL : rode muur ; DK : rod arve

Biological type: Annual

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with top in point, sessile. Entire leaves, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin, dotted with black beneath.

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- Height: 10-30 cm.

- Stem square, flat, ascending at flowering, numerous axillaries and creeping before flowering.

- Leaves opposed, sessile, ovate with top discretely pointed, lower face of lamina dotted with black.

- Flowers red, lilac,(rarely white) solitary on slender pedicel becomes curved and rigid at fructification.

- Fruit: capsule half opens, (pyxide) fixed on reflected filiform pedicel.

- Risk of confusion with Lythurum hyssopifolia L., Anagallis foemina Miller.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Lythrum hyssopifolia , Anagallis foemina

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