Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : chevu
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Chenopodium olidum Curtis, Chenopodium foetidum Lamarck.
Classification: Chenopodiaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: stinking goosefoot
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Stinkender Gänsefuß ; ES : hierba hedionda ; FR : chénopode puant ; IT : farinello puzzolente ; PT : fedegosa ; EN : stinking goosefoot ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Cotyledons elliptic with a truncate top, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, ovate or triangular, irregularly dentate.
- Stem erect, very branched, spreading or ascendent, (5-10 cm long).
- Leaves: the lower opposite and the uppermost alternate. All the leaves are stalked, with a whitish-mealy blade on each side, entire ( sometimes 1-toothed ), ovate a bit rhomboid.
- Flowers whitish in small closed spikelets at the end of branches, leafless. Sepals without keel on the back hide the mature fruit.
- Seed compressed (1mm in diameter), black-brownish, shiny, acute margined, finely punctated.
- Plant with a nauseous odour. Used as bright-yellow wool dye and as an antihysteric medicine.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags):
Rare
Present
Present
Rare
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