Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon
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Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie Weed Science & Agronomy INRA-Dijon |
Bayer Code : equra
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Equisetum campanulatum Poiret.
Classification: Equisetaceae, Equisetaceae
Common name: branched horsetail
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Ästiger Schachtelhalm ; ES : equiseto ramoso ; FR : prêle rameuse ; IT : equiseto ramosissimo ; PT : pinheirinha. ; EN : branched horsetail ;
Biological type: Perennial with rhizomes
- Plant propagates mostly vegetatively (rhizomes...); establishment from seedling is rare.
- Height: 40-100 cm.
- Stems all similar grey-green, slightly rough, straight with 8 to 20 convex ribs and a very large central cavity, branched, the longest branches arisen from median nodes. Sheath 15-20 mm, longer than broad, truncate, broadened at the apex, ginger, lanceolate -toothed, scarious, generally persistent.
- Fruiting: spike 8-15 mm, dense, ovoid, mucronate. The sporangia appear from may to september.
- Plant toxic. Plant protected in Haute-Vienne (decree 01/09/89).[France].
- Biological type: Perennial with rhizomes.
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