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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : carhi

Scientific name: Cardamine hirsuta L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: hairy bitter-cress

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Behaartes Schaumkraut ; ES : mastuerzo menor ; FR : cardamine hirsute ; IT : billeri primaticcio ; PT : agriao-menor ; EN : hairy bitter-cress ; NL : kleine veldkers ;

Biological type: Annual

Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elongated spoon shaped.

- First leaves reniform, entire, then divided pinnate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-30 cm. Plant strigose at base, with tap root.

- Stem flexuous, ramifying, angular, glabrous or glabrescent, slightly leafy.

- Lower leaves in rosette ; alternate leaves pinnatisect (5-9 lobs), dark green. Cauline leaves smaller, pinnatisect (1-3 lobs), sparsely hairy, petiolate and slightly numerous.

- White flowers, small, in raceme, overtaken by lower silicules.

- Fruits : linear silicules, more narrow towards top, 18-25 mm long, 0,8-1 mm wide. Seeds rectangular, brown, small, not winged.

- Biological type: annual.

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

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