HYPP-A Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : barvu

Scientific name: Barbarea vulgaris R. Brown


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Erysium bararea L.

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: winter-cress

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Echtes Barbarakraut ; ES : hierba de santa bárbara ; FR : barbarée vulgaire ; IT : Erba di Santa Barbara ; PT : erva-de-Santa-Bárbara ; EN : winter-cress ; NL : barbarakruid ; DK :

Biological type: Biennial, Perennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons round-oval, distinctly petiolate.

- Foliage leaves roundish, entire or emarginate, cordate at the base, later pinnately lobed.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height 30-90 cm.

- Stem branched, upright, angular.

- Foliage leaves: lower leaves in rosettes, pinnately lobed to pinnately sected, with 2-5 pairs of oblong -lanceolate, undulating dentate lateral segments and a small, roundish terminal segment; the uppermost stem leaves simple, emarginate dentate, amplexicaul.

- Flowers golden, pyramidal densely arranged.

- Fruit : roundish square pods, 15-25 x 1,5-2 mm; seed finely reticulate, 1,3-1,5mm.

- Biological type: biennial to perennial


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