Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : cervu
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Cerastium vulgatum L., Cerastium caespitosum Gillb., Cerastium triviale Link, Cerastium holosteoides Fr.
Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: common mouse-ear
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Gemeines Hornkraut ; ES : oreja de ratón ; FR : céraiste commun ; IT : peverina fontana ; PT : ; EN : common mouse-ear ;
Biological type: Perennial
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- Cotyledons in shape of spoon.
- Entire leaves, elliptical to ovate, with entire margin.
- Height: 10-50 cm. Plant green dark, pubescent ; with barren shoots.
- Stem prostrate at base, then ascending.
- Leaves ovate or elliptical with short straight hairs. Lower leaves on sterile shoot, blunt, narrowed to stalk-like base; middle leaves ovate to ovate-elongated, slightly pointed, at tip: 2-4 times longer than wide.
- Flowers small, in dichasial chymes, panicles slightly slack; bracts highly membranous at margin; petals longer than sepals.
- Fruits with unequal teeth erect or nearly flat, in cone at top, 2-3 times longer than sepals which surrounded it. Leaf sheath is narrow persistent.
- Biological type: perennial, but behaves as winter germination annual in arable crops.
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