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Bayer Code : arise

Scientific name: Arenaria serpyllifolia L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Alsine serpyllifolia Crantz, Stellaria serpyllifolia Scopoli.

Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: thyme-leaved sandwort

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Quendelblättriges Sandkraut ; ES : arenaria ; FR : sabline à feuilles de serpolet ; IT : arenaria serpillifolia ; PT : dente-de-cão ; EN : thyme-leaved sandwort ; NL : zandmuur ; DK : markhavre

Biological type: Annual

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate, with top pointed, sessile.

- Entire leaves elliptical to ovate, entire margin.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 5-25 cm. Plant bushy.

- Stem prostrate then ascending very branched out early at base and downy with short hair.

- Leaves sessile, ovate, pointed lanceolate, with vein.

- Flower small, white in dichotomous cymes, leafy and slack, pedicel x2 longer than calyx. Petal shorter than sepal with entire margin.

- Fruit: slender capsules, slightly touching sepals which

surrounded it.

- Triazine resistant population exists in France.

- Biological type: annual

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

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