Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : digsa
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Panicum sanguinale L.
Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous
Common name: hairy finger-grass
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Blutrote Fingerhirse ; ES : pata de gallina ; FR : digitaire sanguine ; IT : sanguinella comune ; PT : milhã-digitada ; EN : hairy finger-grass ; NL : bloedgierst ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Shoot rolled, leaf sheath terete.
- Leaf blade 2-5 times longer than wide, leaf more or less hairy.
- Ligule membranous toothed, auricles absent.
- Height: 10-60cm. Plant tufted, hairy.
- Culms branched spreading ascending, lower nodes often rooted.
- Leaves uniformly hairy (hairs 0.5 mm long). The leaf blade has a characteristic width (near 6 mm in the 2nd leaf), leaves relatively short, often undulate, hairy on the green to red sheath.
- Inflorescence : 4-10 spike -like racemes, digitate, with short-stalked 1-flowered spikelets, lower glume very short, upper as long as the spikelet, finely hairy, sterile flowering-glumes acute.
- Fruits : caryopsis enclosed in the 2 sterile flowering-glumes.
- The plant was cultivated in the past ( Middle-Age) for its edible fruits, food producing plant. Populations exist which are resistant to triazines in France.
- Risk of confusion with Digitaria ischaemum Shreber ex Sc.
- Biological type: Annual.
Mistake with: Digitaria ischaemum
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