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Weed Science & Agronomy
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Bayer Code : cuclf

Scientific name: Turgenia latifolia (L.) Hoffmann


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Caucalis latifolia L.

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: greater bur-parsley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Breitblättrige Haftdolde ; ES : cachurros ; FR : caucalis à larges feuilles ; IT : lappola maggiore ; PT : ; EN : greater bur-parsley ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves pinnately divided.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 15-50 cm.

- Stem erect, stiffly hairy, furrowed.

- Leaves with stiff hairs (thin, bristly, divergent hairs on veins ), glaucous, pinnatisect, ciliate margin, lanceolate pinnatifid and dentate segments.

- Flowers red or pink in long-stalked umbels leaf -opposed, with 2-4 unequal rays ; calyx with 5 hairy teeth. Involucre and involucel of 2-4 equal bracts ; notched petals.

- Fruits : big achenes (1cm long), ovoid, acuminate, with flattened side, bristly with reddish prickles. Persistent carpophore on inflorescence after fruit fall.

- Rare in crops.

- Biological type: annual.


Ecological profile (click on flags): France   Rare     Italy  Present    

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