Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : beavx
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Beta marina Crantz, Beta decumbens Moench, Beta triflora Salisbury
Classification: Chenopodiaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: weed beet, volunteer beet
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gemeine Rübe ; ES : remolacha ; FR : betterave sauvage ; IT : bietola comune ; PT : acelga-brava ; EN : weed beet, EN : volunteer beet ; NL : biet ; DK : strand-bede
Biological type: Perennial,Annual,Biennial
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- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, tip rounded, more or less petiolate.
- Leaves entire elliptic or ovate, regularly dentate.
- Leaves entire, rounded with spaced teeth.
- Height: 80-160 cm when flowering, thick taproot.
- Stem fluted, robust, angular with strict branches.
- Lower leaves very large with a thick petiole, cordate with thick veins. Cauline leaves rhomboid or elliptic.
- Flowers greenish or reddish, 2 to 5 stigma. 5-lobed perianth, 5 stamens borne on a thick disk.
- Fruits : achenes applied to the persistent and accrescent calyx. Seed lenticular and horizontal, axillary glomerules in diffuse spikes.
- Halophilous plant. Risk of contamination in seed-crop cultures. Includes the very numerous varieties of beet: sugar-beet, mangels, red-beet, hybrids and annual derivatives.
- Biological type: Perennial * with swollen tap roots.
* Only Sea beet is really perennial. Most forms are annual or biennial.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
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