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

Bayer Code : bupro

Scientific name: Bupleurum rotundifolium L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: thorow-wax

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Acker-Hasenohr ; ES : haloche ; FR : buplèvre à feuilles rondes ; IT : bupleuro perfogliato ; PT : perfolhada ; EN : thorow-wax ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow, elongated (>10 times longer than wide).

- Entire leaves elliptical to ovate, with entire margin.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 15-75 cm. Glaucous with tap root.

- Stem erect, round, branched towards top.

- Undivided leaves, rounded to ovate, surrounded with transparent boarder. Perfoliate leaves acrosing by stem with principal radiating veins.

- Yellow flowers in umbel 4-8 rays. Without involucre, involucels with erect ovate bracts around umbel after flowering and largely superseded after flowering.

- Fruits : achenes with 6 sides, ovate with visible side, smooth. Brown black achenes 3-3.5 mm. Persistent carpophore on inflorescence after fruit fall.

- Healing and astrigent plant. Species rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual.


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

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