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Bayer Code : angco

Scientific name: Anagallis foemina Miller

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Anagallis arvensis subsp. foemina (Miller) Schinz & Thell. Anagallis arvensis subsp. caerulea Hartmann Anagallis caerulea Schreber non L.

Classification: Primulaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: bluepimpernel

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Blauer Gauchheil ; ES : murrones ; FR : mouron bleu ; IT : centonchio azzurro ; PT : morriao-azul ; EN : bluepimpernel ; NL : blauw guichelheil ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with top in point, sessile.

- Entire leaves, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-30 cm.

- Stem prostrate or ascending, often branched, square, discretely winged.

- Leaves opposed, dotted with black underneath, dark green, ovate elongated, sessile with middle vein streamlined on the lower face of the lamina, accompanied by 2-4 discrete veins.

- Flower blue, bud with fringed corolla.

- Fruits: capsules which half open (pyxide) fixed on the filiform reflected pedicel.

- Risk of confusion with Lythrum hyssopifolia L., Anagalis avensis L.

- Biological type: annual.

Mistake with: Lythrum hyssopifolia , Anagallis arvensis

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

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