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Bayer Code : copsq

Scientific name: Coronopus squamatus (Forsk.) Ascherson

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Colchlearia coronopus L., Coronopus procumbens Cesati Passer & Gibelli Lepidium squamatus Forskål, Senebiera coronopus (L.) Poiret

Classification: Cruciferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: swine-cress (GB)

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Niederliegender Krähenfuß ; ES : mastuerzo silvestre ; FR : senebière corne de cerf ; IT : lappolina gramignola ; PT : ; EN : swine-cress ; NL : grove varkenskers ;

Biological type: Annual

Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons lanceolate and glabrous.

-Leaves : the first with sparse lateral lobes, the lower leaves pinnatifid.

Adult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height : 5-40 cm.

- Stem glabrous greatly branched, prostrate.

- Leaves glabrous, divided (1 or 2) with linear segments.

- Flowers white, very small, in dense raceme within the axis of leaves.

- Fruits : silicles approx. 2.5-3 x 4 mm, fused, strongly reticulate with appiculate edge.

- Biological type : annual.

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

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