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Bayer Code : copdi

Scientific name: Coronopus didymus (L.) J. E. Smith

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Lepidium didymum L., Senebiera didyma L. Pers. Senebiera didyma (L.)Persoon, Coronopus pinnatifidus Gaertner Senebiera pinnatifida De Candolle

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: lesser swine-cress

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Zweiknotiger Krähenfuß ; ES : mastuerzo verrugoso ; FR : senebière didyme ; IT : lappolina americana ; PT : ; EN : lesser swine-cress ; NL : kleine varkenskers ;

Biological type: Annual, Biennial

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic, with a truncate tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, round, sparsely dentate.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50cm. Plant hairy, fetid with an extensive principal root.

- Stems numerous, branched, elongate.

- Leaves pinnatipartite with entire or notched lobes.

- Flowers white with falling sepals, petals shorter than the calyx often absent, they are non persistent at the base of the fruits.

- Fruits: siliqua indehiscent, smooth, notched at the tip. Raceme longer than the leaves.

- Biological type: Annual to biennial.

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

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