Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : czrsc
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Ornithopus scorpioides L., Scorpioides matthioli Dode Ornithopodium scorpioides Allioni, Artholobium scorpioides De Candolle
Classification: Leguminosae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: annual scorpion-vetch
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Skorpionskraut ; ES : alacranera común ; FR : coronille à queue de scorpion ; IT : coronilla coda-di-scorpione ; PT : pascoínhas ; EN : annual scorpion-vetch ;
Biological type: Annual
- Cotyledons elliptic, linear.
- Leaves ovate -acuminate, margin entire.
- Height: 10-40cm. Plant glabrous and glaucous with a taproot.
- Stem herbaceous.
- Basal leaves simple and spatulate. Upper leaves trifoliate with big stipules, very unequal leaves, the terminal leaflet is the longest. The later stipules are small and joined.
- Flowers yellow, small, 2 or 4 on pedicels a bit longer than the leaf. Inflorescence few-flowered.
- Fruits : legumes becoming hanging or spreading, 3-4 cm long, 6-obtuse angular, very curved, constricted between the seeds, striate. Seeds are toxic.
- Species protected in Limousin ( 01/09/89 decree) [France].
- Biological type: annual.
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