Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : cenme
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: maltese centaury
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Malteser Ackerblume ; ES : abrepuños ; FR : centaurée de Malte ; IT : fiordaliso maltese ; PT : beija-mao ; EN : maltese centaury ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptical to ovate with rounded tip, more or less petiolate.
- Entire leaves, deeply indented.
- Height: 10-100 cm. Pubescent rough.
- Stem erect straight, narrow winged, rough at surface, with flat erect branches.
- Lower leaves in rosette ; green-dark leaves, dentate cutting, with black mucron (woolly hairs), very tufted on young leaves. Cauline entire leaves.
- Yellow glandulous flowers in solitary or aggregate capitulum. Spiny ovoid involucre, yellow-green without visible veins, bracts.
- Fruits greyish small achenes, covered by small hairs (2-3 mm) White or fawn-coloured pappus of same length as fruits.
- Bitter plant, digestive, diuretic. Species rare in crops.
- - Risk of confusion with: Centaurea solsticialis L.
- Biological type: annual.
Mistake with: Centaurea solstitialis
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
