Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : ephex
Synonym(s) of Sc. name:
Classification: Euphorbiaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: dwarf spurge
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Kleine Wolfsmilch ; ES : lechetreznilla romeral ; FR : euphorbe exiguë ; IT : euforbia sottile ; PT : ésula-menor ; EN : dwarf spurge ; NL : kleine wolf ; DK : liden vortemælk
Biological type: Annual
- Cotyledons elliptic to ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.
- Leaves entire, lanceolate, more or less toothed.
- Height: 5-20 cm. Small plant with a slender root.
- Stem ascending, yellowish-green, often red-tinged, branched near the base.
- Leaves lower opposite, later alternate. Lower leaves closed, small, sessile. Later leaves linear, entire-margined, and spiny or truncate apex. Whitish latex.
- Flowers yellow-green very small in umbels. Bracts linear, broad or lanceolate, grass-green, very distant. 3-rayed cymes terminal on the stem or on branches with several axillary branches.
- Fruit : capsule glabrous with narrow furrows slightly opened (2 mm). Seed 4-angled, furrowed-embossed, yellowish to black-brown.
- Plant toxic, vermifuge; the root is purgative.
- Biological type: Annual.
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