Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : cucla

Scientific name: Caucalis platycarpos L.

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Caucalis daucoides L., Caucalis lappula Grande.

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: small bur-parsley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Kletten-Haftdolde ; ES : cachurro ; FR : caucalis fausse carotte ; IT : lappola carota ; PT : ; EN : small bur-parsley ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

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Seedling:

- Cotyledons very narrow elongated( 10 times longer than large)

- Divided leaves, pinnate. First leaves divided into 5 segments.

Adult plant:

- Height: 10-40 cm.

- Glabrous stem, strigose or hairy;stem with numerous branches.

- Lower leaves in rosette, greyish-green, similar to seedling, divided with narrow, short lobes. Leaves tripinnatisect with ascending number of segments; ridged petiole terminated in large membranous and hairy leaf. Erect hairs on underside of leaf sheath.

- Flowers white or rose, small, in umbel 2-4 ridged rays.

- Fruits : achenes typical of umbellifers, tall, elliptical (8-10 x 4-5 mm) terminated by hooked prickle at top. Persistent carpophore on inflorescence after fruit fall.

- Species decreasing in crops.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags):   Rare       Rare       Present    

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